Spring 2021 Speakers
Tim Clutton-Brock
Title: The evolution of cooperative breeding in mammals. Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 02 March 2021
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Susan E. Perry
Title: Determinants of behavioral variation in wild white-faced capuchins at Lomas Barbudal: the value of long-term field studies. Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 09 March 2021
Suggested Readings:
John W. Fitzpatrick
Title: Supersize It: Fire Cycles, Competition for Space, and Cooperative Breeding in the Florida Scrub-Jay. Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 23 March 2021
Suggested Readings:
Douglas J. Emlen
Title: Extreme Weapons: A Natural History. Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 30 March 2021
Suggested Readings:
Joan E. Strassmann
Title: What does cooperation and conflict in microbes have in common with animal social behavior? Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 6 April 2021
Suggested Readings:
Christian Pirk
Title: The interaction of pheromones, diet and reproduction in the honeybee. Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 13 April 2021
Suggested Readings:
Gerald Carter
Title: Cooperative relationships in vampire bats. Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 20 April 2021
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László Zsolt Garamszegi
Title: The evolutionary ecology of dogs: phylogenetic comparative studies at the within-species level. Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 27 April 2021
Suggested Readings:
Dustin R. Rubenstein
Title: Causes and Consequences of Sociality: Spanning Molecules to Populations. Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 04 May 2021
Suggested Readings:
Barbara Taborsky
Title: The evolution of plastic social phenotypes. Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 11 May 2021
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Adriana Maldonado-Chaparro
Title: Social and demographic consequences of changing environments. Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 18 May 2021
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Stephen T. Trumbo
Title: Social Life Among the Dead: Burying Beetles and the Evolution of Parental Care. Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 25 May 2021
Suggested Readings:
Lena Grinsted
Title: Using spiders to understand the evolution of group living. Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 8 June 2021
Suggested Readings:
To be announced.
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To be announced.
Nancy Solomon
Title: Inter- and Intraspecific Variability in the Prairie Vole Social System. Link to Recorded Talk.
Date: 15 June 2021
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Rebeca Rosengaus
Title: The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Emergent Properties of Eusocial Insect Immunity.
Date: 22 June 2021
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