Papers
EHBE 2008
Please
bring your presentation at the registration desk, either Tuesday
18:00-20:00 or Wednesday 8:30-8:50.
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| Wednesday
2nd April |
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| 9:00-10:00 |
Cumulative
Cultural Evolution: a review of existing theory and empirical data
Magnus Enquist
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| 10:00-11:00 |
Showing
Off in Humans: Male Generosity as a Mating Signal 
Wendy Iredale & Mark Van Vugt
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Cooperation
through evolution of social contracts
Kimmo Eriksson & Pontus Strimling
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| 11:30-12:00 |
When
does optional participation allow the evolution of cooperation?
Sarah Mathew & Robert Boyd
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| 12:00-12:30 |
Giving
it all away: Altruism and answers to the Wason selection task?
Laurence Fiddick & Nicole Elrich
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| 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
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Which
traits will win in cultural evolution?
Pontus Strimling, Magnus Enquist & Kimmo Eriksson
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| 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
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Explaining
the global distribution of human cultural groups
Thomas Currie & Ruth Mace
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| 16:30-17:00 |
Acquired
social learning strategies in humans
Ulf Toelch, Matthew Bruce, Aana Gomez-Narvaez & Simon Reader
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| 17:00-17:30 |
Non-conformism
and cultural evolution of within-group similarity
Julie Coultas & Kimmo
Eriksson
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| 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
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| Thursday
3rd April |
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| 9:00-10:00 |
Reproductive
effort, senescence and longevity in premodern Finns
Virpi Lummaa
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| 10:30-11:00 |
The
influence of maternal care in shaping human survival and fertility
Samuel Pavard, David Koons & Evelyne Heyer
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| 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
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| 11:30-12:00 |
Trade-offs
in modern parenting: A longitudinal study of sibling competition
for
parental care
David Lawson & Ruth Mace
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| 12:00-12:30 |
Paternal
investment varies by socio-economic status and offspring sex in
a cohort of British children
Daniel Nettle
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| 12:30-13:00 |
Face
and odor as cues of paternity that help fathers to direct their
investment
Alexandra Alvergne, Charlotte Faurie & Michel Raymond
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| 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
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| 15:00-15:30 |
Running
Head: Gender and outgroup fear
Carlos Navarrete, Andreas Olsson, Arnold Ho, Wendy Mendes, Jim Sidanius
& Lotte Thomsen
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| 16:00-16:30 |
The
evolution of reasoning as an argumentative device
Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber
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| 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
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| 17:30-18:00 |
Hormones
and the evolution of the social mind
Mark Flinn
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| Friday
4th April |
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| 9:00-10:00 |
The
waist-to-hip ratio hypothesis of women's attractiveness: Time to
let go?
Viren Swami
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Maternal
guiding of offspring development: links between metabolism and cognition?
Jonathan Wells, Elizabeth Isaacs & Jay Belsky
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Life-course
dependent change in testosterone profiles, skeletal stature and
muscle mass among Bangladeshi males following migration to the UK
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Kesson Magid, Farid Ahamed & Gillian Bentley
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| 11:30-12:00 |
Parasitic
infection, life history and population dynamics
Helen Davis, Oskar Burger, Michael Gurven & Hillard Kaplan
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 17:00-17:30 |
Male
wealth predicts orgasm frequency in a sample of Chinese women
Thomas Pollet & Daniel Nettle
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