European Human Behaviour and Evolution

Conference 2-4 April 2008, Montpellier, France





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Please bring your presentation at the registration desk, either Tuesday 18:00-20:00 or Wednesday 8:30-8:50.
Wednesday 2nd April
 
9:00-10:00 Cumulative Cultural Evolution: a review of existing theory and empirical data
Magnus Enquist

 
10:00-11:00

Showing Off in Humans: Male Generosity as a Mating Signal
Wendy Iredale & Mark Van Vugt

 
11:00-11:30

Cooperation through evolution of social contracts
Kimmo Eriksson & Pontus Strimling

 
11:30-12:00

When does optional participation allow the evolution of cooperation?
Sarah Mathew & Robert Boyd


 
12:00-12:30

Giving it all away: Altruism and answers to the Wason selection task?
Laurence Fiddick & Nicole Elrich


 
12:30-13:00

Detecting reliable signals of male altruistic effort
William Brown, Michael Price, Jinsheng Kang, Basil Badi, Yue Zhao, Sulafa Yassin & Dominic Johnson


 
14:30-15:00

Which traits will win in cultural evolution?
Pontus Strimling, Magnus Enquist & Kimmo Eriksson

 
15:00-15:30

The evolution of shame as a prosocial emotion. A cross-cultural study on conflict and cooperation in historical societies
Jörg Wettlaufer

 
15:30-16:00

Explaining the global distribution of human cultural groups
Thomas Currie & Ruth Mace

 
16:30-17:00

Acquired social learning strategies in humans
Ulf Toelch, Matthew Bruce, Aana Gomez-Narvaez & Simon Reader

 
17:00-17:30

Non-conformism and cultural evolution of within-group similarity
Julie Coultas & Kimmo
Eriksson

 
17:30-18:00

Culture is not a new darwinian world. A critique of the genetic analogy in evolutionary approaches to culture
Jean-Baptiste André & Nicolas Claidière

 
Thursday 3rd April
 
9:00-10:00

Reproductive effort, senescence and longevity in premodern Finns
Virpi Lummaa

 
10:30-11:00

The influence of maternal care in shaping human survival and fertility
Samuel Pavard, David Koons & Evelyne Heyer

 
11:00-11:30

When fecundity does not equal fitness: Evidence of an offspring quantity vs. quality trade-off in pre-industrial humans
Duncan Gillespie, Andrew Russell & Virpi Lummaa

 
11:30-12:00

Trade-offs in modern parenting: A longitudinal study of sibling competition for
parental care
David Lawson & Ruth Mace

 
12:00-12:30

Paternal investment varies by socio-economic status and offspring sex in a cohort of British children
Daniel Nettle

 
12:30-13:00

Face and odor as cues of paternity that help fathers to direct their investment
Alexandra Alvergne, Charlotte Faurie & Michel Raymond

 
14:30-15:00

Eye Witness – I Witness: Explaining celebrity worship as a mismatch outcome of evolved psychological mechanisms triggered by media visuals
Charlotte De Backer

 
15:00-15:30

Running Head: Gender and outgroup fear
Carlos Navarrete, Andreas Olsson, Arnold Ho, Wendy Mendes, Jim Sidanius & Lotte Thomsen

 
16:00-16:30

The evolution of reasoning as an argumentative device
Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber

 
16:30-17:00

Life after death: An investigation into how mortality perceptions influence
fertility preferences using evidence from an internet-based experiment
Paul Mathews & Rebecca Sear

 
17:30-18:00

Hormones and the evolution of the social mind
Mark Flinn

 
Friday 4th April
 
9:00-10:00

The waist-to-hip ratio hypothesis of women's attractiveness: Time to let go?
Viren Swami

 
10:30-11:00

Maternal guiding of offspring development: links between metabolism and cognition?
Jonathan Wells, Elizabeth Isaacs & Jay Belsky

 
11:00-11:30

Life-course dependent change in testosterone profiles, skeletal stature and muscle mass among Bangladeshi males following migration to the UK ?
Kesson Magid, Farid Ahamed & Gillian Bentley

 
11:30-12:00

Parasitic infection, life history and population dynamics
Helen Davis, Oskar Burger, Michael Gurven & Hillard Kaplan

 
12:00-12:30

Number of children is related to testosterone levels, but direction of this relationship depends on fathers’ education
Ilona Nenko, Grazyna Jasienska & Peter Ellison

 
12:30-13:00

Climate and food supply induce long-term cohort variation in lifetime reproductive success in a human population
Ian Rickard, Andrew Russell & Virpi Lummaa

 
14:30-15:00

Patterns of subcutaneous fat deposition and the relationship between body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio: implications for models of physical attractiveness
Melissa Bateson, Piers Cornelissen & Martin Tovee

 
15:00-15:30

Patterns of eye-movements when judging female attractiveness, body size and waist-to-hip ratio
Hannah George, Piers Cornelissen, Peter Hancock, V.W. Kiviniemi & Martin Tovée

 
15:30-16:00

Sex and Social Dominance Orientation: Sex-related invariance across cultures in an online role-playing game
Rebecca Levene, Thomas Dickins & Amanda Roberts

 
16:30-17:00

Facial skin colour preferences in white men and women – are relatively lighter women and darker men more attractive?
Boguslaw Pawlowski & Justyna Szymanczyk

 
17:00-17:30

Male wealth predicts orgasm frequency in a sample of Chinese women
Thomas Pollet & Daniel Nettle

 
2-4 April 2008, Montpellier, France