The 9th Annual LERN Conference will be held on Wednesday 5th October 2011 in Malet Place Engineering 1.03 (UCL). The LERN conference provides an opportunity for postgraduate students working on any aspect of evolution to present their work to a diverse audience. This year’s keynote speakers will be Dr. Alex Mesoudi presenting on ‘Human cultural evolution: past, present and future‘ and Professor Adam […]
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‘Developmental plasticity of brain and behaviour in rodents and itsimplications for the 3Rs’ Professor Prof. Hanno Wuerbel, University of Giessen, Germany This event is supported by the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, UFAW (www.ufaw.org.uk), and hosted by Dr. Alan McElligott (lecturer at Queen Mary University, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences) Date: March 15th, 2011, 18.00 Location: Fogg Lecture Theatre, Fogg Building,
‘The Case for Cultural Group Selection‘ By Professor Peter J. Richerson, (Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California Davis) Abstract: Robert Boyd and I have long argued that group selection on culturally transmitted variation has been an important force in gene-cultural coevolution, particularly in the evolution of human “social instincts.” This argument remains controversial. I
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Annual LERN Medawar Memorial Lecture Family, Friends and the Brain By Professor Robin Dunbar (Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford) Date: Wednesday December 15th 2010, 18.30 Location: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT [MAP]
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‘Signal selection – a complementary selection mechanism and its unique creative potential in evolution’ By Professor Amotz Zahavi (Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Abstract: Darwin realized that it was not possible to explain the evolution of certain traits, especially those of sexual extravagance, by the selection for efficiency only. He therefore suggested that an additional selection
Resuscitating Lamarck: Do we need a new evolutionary theory? The issue of epigenetics has sparked some discussion about the mechanisms by which evolutionary change arises. Some scientists believe that epigenesis has been an important factor in evolution, and propose a reformulation of the evolutionary theory as we know it, while others do not see epigenesis
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The 8th Annual LERN Conference will be held on Thursday 11th November 2010 in the Archaeology Lecture Theater (Institute of Archaeology, UCL). The LERN conference provides an opportunity for postgraduate students working on any aspect of evolution to present their work to a diverse audience. This year’s keynote speakers will be Dr Anjali Goswami (University College London) presenting on ‘Integrating
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‘Childhood Experience and the Development of Reproductive Strategies: AnEvolutionary Theory of Socialisation Revisited’ Prof Jay Belsky (Birkbeck, University of London) Abstract: Life-history theory calls attention to across- as well as within-species variation in reproductive strategies. Three decades ago Draper and Harpending (1982) reinterpreted effects of childhood father absence on adolescent sexual behaviour in reproductive strategy terms.
‘Sex and Signaling in Mandrills’ By Dr Joanna Setchell (Durham University, Department of Anthropology) Abstract: Mandrills are one of the most sexually dimorphic mammals. Adult males possess bright red, blue, pink and purple skin on the face, rump and genitalia. Unusually for an Old World primate, which are generally regarded as microsomatic, they also possess
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Annual LERN/CEE Medawar Lecture Evolutionary Theory Evolving By Sir Patrick Bateson (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) Date: 18.30, 25th November 2009 Location: JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Department, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
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