Events 2023 Gavin Lecture: The Biological vs. Social Divide in Anthropology: Why we should give it up, and why it’s the hardest thing to doMon, May 1 2023, 3:30 - 5pm Emergence and Evolution of Carolina’s Colonial Cattle EconomyWed, Apr 19 2023, 3 - 4:30pm The Very Bad Wizards come to MizzouThu, Apr 13 2023, 5 - 6pm The Adaptivity of Human SearchMon, Mar 13 2023, 3:30 - 5pm Shifting the level of selection in scienceMon, Feb 27 2023, 3:30 - 5pm Things that go bump in the literature: what science has learned about anomalous experiences attributed to "haunted houses"Wed, Feb 8 2023, 3 - 4:30pm 2022 Teaching evolution: addressing common misconceptionsMon, Dec 5 2022, 3:30 - 5pm Repatriation, Material Agency, and the Future of Museum CurationWed, Nov 30 2022, 3 - 4:30pm Environmental exposures from the local to the global: Infrastructural violence and human health inequalityWed, Nov 9 2022, 3 - 4:30pm The Evolution of the Human Brain in Regions, Cells, and GenesMon, Nov 7 2022, 3:30 - 5pm Human migration at Classic period Teotihuacan (AD 1-550): advances in multi-isotopic analyses and isoscape development in central MexicoWed, Oct 26 2022, 3 - 4:30pm On the diversity of human expressionMon, Oct 10 2022, 3:30 - 5pm Tobacco Intoxication and Posture in Medio Period Shamanic TranceWed, Sep 28 2022, 3 - 4:30pm Archaeology Month Lecture: Around the Watering Hole: Water and Sanitation in Pompeii and HerculaneumThu, Sep 22 2022, 7 - 8pm Endocrine organization of sex differences in psychology and behavior: New evidence from a rare sourceMon, Sep 12 2022, 3:30 - 5:30pm Reimagining Hominin OriginsMon, May 2 2022, 12 - 1:30pm Bioarcheological and paleopathological approaches to pandemics: What can we learn about the intersection of social inequality and pandemic infectious disease through the study of pandemics in the past?Wed, Apr 27 2022, 3:30 - 5pm CVIsotopic Geochemistry and Its Contribution to the Study of Human Mobility and Artifact ProvenanceWed, Apr 13 2022, 3:30 - 5pm Neo-Aristotelian Human NatureMon, Apr 11 2022, 12 - 1:30pm Pluralism and epistemic goals: why the social sciences will (probably) not be synthesized by evolutionary theoryMon, Apr 4 2022, 12 - 1:30pm What is Special about Language?: A Coevolutionary PerspectiveMon, Mar 21 2022, 12 - 1:30pm James A. & Margaret S. Gavan Lecture: Aesthetics Before ArtMon, Mar 14 2022, 5:30 - 6:30pm 2020 The Coevolution of the Human and Media: The Convergence of the Biological and TechnologicalMon, Mar 30 2020, 12 - 1:30pm Social Dominance Theory and the Dynamics of Gendered PrejudiceMon, Mar 16 2020, 12 - 1:30pm Bone Chemistry and Ancient Diet in Ancient Italy and the MediterraneanWed, Mar 11 2020, 3:30 - 5pm Anthropology Lecture Series- Milk with Altitude: Investigations into human milk and high growth in high altitude living TibetansWed, Feb 26 2020, 3 - 5pm Why Humans Evolve in the Pleistocene and Our Complex Economies in the Holocene?Mon, Feb 10 2020, 12 - 1:30pm 2019 Johannes Schul “Insect Acoustic Communication as Model for Trait Evolution in Rapidly Changing Environments” Tue, Nov 5 2019, 6 - 7:30am Why and How We Grow Old: Cooperation and Conflict in Human FamiliesTue, Oct 15 2019, 7 - 8:30am Annual Gavan Lecture by Dan Hruskha from Arizona State UniversityMon, Oct 14 2019, 12:30 - 2pm