‘Childhood Experience and the Development of Reproductive Strategies: An Evolutionary 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…

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‘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…

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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…

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