Dear HBES members, We are pleased to announce that HBES will be offering a childcare option for parents attending the HBES 2024 conference in Aarhus. The Society has contracted with the Nanny Agency, based in Copenhagen and Aarhus, to provide childcare services: https://www.thenannyagency.dk/en/forside-1 The hourly rate for childcare will be $20 USD during the day […]
3-Year Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow Humans possess an unparalleled capacity to learn socially from others with extraordinary fidelity. This capacity has given rise to complex, cumulative culture. And cumulative culture, in turn, has been essential for the success humans have enjoyed in recent evolutionary history. Unsurprisingly, then, social learning receives centre-stage attention in evolutionary […]
– by Nicole Hess [Communication Officer’s Note: Readers of Evolution & Human Behavior are used to reading the results of fieldwork when the papers get published. However, unless they themselves are field researchers, readers of E&HB may not be as familiar with the *process* of fieldwork and what it’s like to collect such data (I […]
– By Kristin Snopkowski & Annemarie Hasnain While free choice of spouses (i.e., the love marriage) is the norm in western countries today, arranged marriage has historically been a common form of marriage. We see this today in some cultures, like India and Pakistan where it is still common, and in the past century in […]
– by Henry Wainwright Humour is an everyday part of our lives and is present in virtually all human cultures, seemingly both past and present; the oldest known surviving joke being from Bronze Age Sumer, circa 1900 B.C. And while what we find funny is likely culturally and socially influenced, the fact that we all […]
– by Ollie Shannon & Anne Pisor The Vatican made it official: transgender individuals can now serve as godparents. But what is a godparent and why are godparents important? Ultimately, answering this question requires us to think about the evolution of human social life – and the importance of chosen kin. Humans raise children cooperatively, […]
Image: A vintage and somewhat unscientific map of mental functions. But how fine grained are these adaptations? – by Thomas J. H. Morgan From the outside, the brain is a medium sized, pinkish-grey blob. At the microscopic level, it’s a densely woven mesh of countless neurons. In between these two extremes is the brain’s functional […]
The official HBES journal, Evolution and Human Behavior, has created a new report format: short reports. Short reports, created in honor of John Tooby, are intended to expedite the publication of concise reports of original research. Short reports contain no more than 3000 words in the introduction, methods, results and discussion combined, an abstract of […]
– by Deb Lieberman, Editor-in-Chief, Evolution & Human Behavior In honor of John Tooby (1952-2023) and his contributions to our field, members of HBES and invited guests are welcome to pick a quote(s) from any Tooby publication of any year and take up to 350 words to state its importance or its impact on science. […]
We are fast approaching the 35th Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior & Evolution Society in Aarhus, Denmark! It will be held at Aarhus University from May 22-25, 2024. Here are some important dates to know about HBES 2024: Abstract submission deadline: Feb 1st Final abstract acceptance confirmations: March 1st Last day for Early Registration: […]