Awards
The Human Behavior and Evolution Society Early Career Award and Lifetime Career Award recognizes individuals for their contributions to the field. In addition, each year the editors of Evolution and Human Behavior, the official journal of the society, award the Margo Wilson Award for best paper published in Evolution and Human Behavior.
Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution
The Early Career Award recognizes excellent young scientists who have made distinguished theoretical and/or empirical contributions to the study of evolution and human behavior.
2019 Award Winner
2019 Brendan Zietsch
School of Psychology
The University of Queensland
Previous Award Winners
 2018 Josh TyburDepartment of Experimental and Applied Psychology University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
 2017 Coren ApicellaDepartment of Psychology University of Pennsylvania, USA |
 2016 Marco Del GiudiceDepartment of Psychology University of New Mexico, USA |
 2015 Pat BarclayDepartment of Psychology University of Guelph, Canada |
 2014 Vladas GriskeviciusCarson School of Management University of Minnesota |
 2013 David A. Puts Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University, USA |
 2012 Lisa DeBruineInstitute of Neuroscience and Psychology University of Glasgow, UK |
 2010 Michael GurvenDepartment of Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
 2009 Joseph Henrich Department of Psychology University of British Columbia, Canada |
 2008 Rob KurzbanDepartment of Psychology University of Pennsylvania |
Nominations
The nomination letter should include the following information:
- What are the general themes of the nominee’s major lines of research?
- What are the important research findings discovered by the nominee?
- To what extent have the nominee’s contributions generated research in the field?
Nominations for the HBES Early Career Award should include a statement about the worthiness of the nominee, curriculum vita of the nominee, a recent complete bibliography, and no more than five reprints representative of the nominee’s contributions.
Please note: The award is subject to the following limitation: The nominee must be no more than ten years post-Ph.D.
Nominations should be submitted ONLINE by 1 July 2020
Lifetime Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution
The HBES Lifetime Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution is awarded to HBES members who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in evolution and human behavior.
2019 Award Winner
2019 Bobbi Low
School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Previous Award Winners
 2018 David BussDepartment of Psychology University of Texas, Austin, USA |
  2017 Robert Boyd & Peter RichersonSchool of Human Evolution and Social Change Arizona State University, USA Department of Environmental Science and Policy University of California Davis, USA |
 2016 Leda Cosmides & John ToobyCenter for Evolutionary Psychology University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
 2015 Randy NesseCenter for Evolution and Medicine Arizona State University, USA |
| 2014 (no award made) |
 2013 Sarah HrdyDepartment of Anthropology University of California, Davis, USA |
 2012 Jane LancasterDepartment of Anthropology University of New Mexico, USA |
 2011 William IronsDepartment of Anthropology Northwestern University, USA |
 2010 Napoleon ChagnonDepartment of Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
 2009 Martin Daly and Margo WilsonDepartment of Psychology McMaster University, Canada |
 2008 Richard AlexanderMuseum of Zoology University of Michigan, USA |
Nominations
Nominations are open for the HBES Lifetime Career award. If you wish to nominate someone, please follow these guidelines. Nominations for these awards should include a letter of nomination, a curriculum vita, a recent complete bibliography, up to five representative reprints and the names and addresses of several scientists familiar with the nominee’s work.
- What has been the significant and enduring influence of the nominee’s research?
- What historical contribution has the nominee’s research made to the field?
- Compare the nominee with others in her/his field.
- What influence has the nominee had on students and others in the same field of study?
- Where possible, please identify the nominee’s students by name.
Nominations should be submitted ONLINE by 1 July 2020.
Margo Wilson Award
An annual award made by the editors of Evolution and Human Behavior for best paper published in the journal in the previous year.
2019 Award Winner
2019 Kyweluk, M. A., Georgiev, A. V., Borja, J. B., Gettler, L. T., & Kuzawa, C. W. (2018). Menarcheal timing is accelerated by favorable nutrition but unrelated to developmental cues of mortality or familial instability in Cebu, Philippines. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(1), 76-81.
Previous Award Winners
2018 Coren Apicella, Alyssa C. Crittenden, & Victoria A. Tobolsky (2017). Hunter-gatherer males are more risk-seeking than females, even in late childhood. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(5), 592-603.
2017 Adar B. Eisenbruch, Rachel L. Grillot, Dario Maestripieri & James R. Roney (2016). Evidence of partner choice heuristics in a one-shot bargaining game. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(6), 429-439.
2016 Rachel Kendal, Lydia M. Hopper, Andrew Whiten, Sarah F. Brosnan, Susan P. Lambeth, Steven J. Schapiro & Will Hoppitt (2015). Chimpanzees copy dominant and knowledgeable individuals: implications for cultural diversity. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(1), 65-72.
2015a Casey J. Roulette, Hayley Mann, Brian M. Kemp, Mark Remiker, Jennifer W. Roulette, Barry S. Hewlett, Mirdad Kazanji, Sébastien Breurec, Didier Monchy, Roger J. Sullivan & Edward H. Hagen (2014). Tobacco use vs. helminths in Congo basin hunter-gatherers: self-medication in humans? Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(5), 397-407.
2015b James Holland Jones & Rebecca Bliege Bird (2014). The marginal valuation of fertility. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(1), 65-71.
2014 Jeffrey Winking & Nicholas Mizer (2013). Natural-field dictator game shows no altruistic giving. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34(4), 288–293.
2013 Maciej Chudek, Sarah Heller, Susan Birch & Joseph Henrich (2012). Prestige-biased cultural learning: bystander’s differential attention to potential models influences children’s learning. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 46–56.
2012 Alex Mesoudi (2011). An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: Payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but under-used. Evolution and Human Behavior, 32, 334–342.
2011 David A. Puts (2010). Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 157–175.
2010 Andreas Wilke & Clark Barrett (2009). The hot hand phenomenon as a cognitive adaptation to clumped resources. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30, 161-169.