The Brain and Evolution: An Anthropology Symposium – SATURDAY 04/10/10

An Anthropological Exploration of the Brain, Language, Emotion, Culture, and our Evolutionary Past.

Tentative Outline of Talks:
9am – Coffee and Student Posters
10am – Georg Striedter – Principles of Brain Evolution (evolutionary neurobiology based talk)
11am – Michael Arbib -Mirror Neurons and More: Language and Tool Use
12am – Clark Barrett – (evolutionary psychology based talk)
1pm – Lunch
2pm – Katerina Semendeferi – ( Evolution of emotional and cognitive processes in hominoids)
3pm – Sang-Hee Lee – (Changes in brain morphology over evolutionary time)
4pm – Meet and Greet

Featuring guest speakers:

Georg Striedter, UCI Neurobiology & Behavior
http://striedterlab.bio.uci.edu/StriedterLaboratory/page4/page13/page13.html

Michael A. Arbib – Director, USC Brain Project
http://www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=16

Clark Barrett, UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/barrett/

Katerina Semendeferi, UCSD Anthropology/Neuroscience
http://anthropology.ucsd.edu/Faculty_Profiles/semendeferi.html

Sang-Hee Lee, UCR Anthropology
http://faculty.ucr.edu/~shlee/

In addition 2 PSA members as well as 3 other Anthropology students will be presenting posters at the Symposium so come out and support your classmates!

Southern California Primate Research Forum: Mate choice in humans and nonhuman primates

Southern California Primate Research Forum:

The Upcoming Forum
Mate choice in humans and nonhuman primates

24 April 2010
Cal State Fullerton

Directions and Parking

http://www.fullerton.edu/campusmap/

PROGRAM

8:30 Check in, coffee, bagels

9:00 Opening remarks

9:15 Greg Grether (UCLA)
Mate choice and the evolution of indicator traits: insights from research on guppies and other animal model systems

10:15 Break

10:30 Joe Manson (UCLA)
New directions in non-human primate mate choice research

11:30 Lunch

1:00 Martin Muller (University of New Mexico)
Male sexual coercion and female choice in wild chimpanzees

2:00 Break

2:15 Jim Roney (UCSB)
New directions in the study of human mate choice

3:15 Elizabeth Pillsworth (CSUF)
Mate choice among the Shuar of Ecuador: Stated versus revealed preferences

4:15 Close

SCPRF Advisory Committee: Norm Rosen (SCRPF/CSUF), Raffaela Commitante (CSUF), Peter Fashing (CSUF), Lynne Miller (Mira Costa College), Jim Moore (UCSD), Nga Nguyen (CSUF)
ADMISSION: Free to CSU Fullerton students with ID; other students $7 (with ID); $12 general admission. Pay at the door.

To make sure there’s enough coffee & food, please RSVP to Nga Nguyen at amboseli@gmail.com, putting SCPRF RSVP in the email header.

Posters

Beginning in November 2006, SCPRF plans to host a poster session at the November Forum only; this will be a regular feature of the Nov. Forum, so participants can plan ahead. If you are interested, please see the guidelines below and direct inquiries to Lynne Miller.
The poster session is an excellent venue for Undergraduate and Master’s level students to present their research and gain experience in a friendly and low pressure context. The poster session will convene during the one hour afternoon coffee break.

Please note: poster content does not have to reflect the meeting topic; we will consider posters presenting information on a wide range of subject matter.

This poster session continues to be a great success and we would like very much to see it continue. If you are a student, or know of a student, who is ready to present, please submit names and proposed titles to

Lynne Miller lmiller@miracosta.edu
Space will be limited, the earlier you respond the more likely we can include the poster.

Posters should be mounted on folding poster boards measuring 36″ X 48″ (when folded they measure 36″ X 24″) which can be purchased at most office supplies stores. General guidelines for how to put a poster together can be found at www.asp.org/education/howto_onPosters.html or at http://faculty.ucr.edu/~maryb/poster.htm

Animals in the Spotlight: Our Community Wildlife

Animals in the Spotlight is an event hosted by Roots & Shoots CSUF. (Many PSA students are also members!) While it is not directly primate related, the focus is on animals and PSA cares about ALL animals! The event will be held at Cal State Fullerton in room 110-H on March 6th at 6:30 p.m. There will be speakers from Friends of Coyote Hills as well as Hills for Everyone.

There will be opportunity drawings with great prizes!
This event is a potluck so please bring food or drinks and come learn about the threats to our local wildlife!

For more information please email:rootsandshootscsuf@gmail.com

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