The Baldwin Effect and Its Significance:

The Baldwin Effect and Its Significance: A Review of Bruce Weber and David Depew (eds) Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered; MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass 2003, pp x, 341.
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/hppi/about/staff/publications/baldwin.pdf

Evolution for Trait Vulnerability by Professor David Geary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEEc80EmS8c&index=338&list=WL

The Purpose of Purpose - Richard Dawkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT4EWCRfdUg

During Richard Dawkins' American tour in March 2009, he gave a talk titled "The Purpose of Purpose". I travelled with Richard to these cities and filmed the talks, which I've edited together here. The content of the talk remains intact, while the editing moves between the different locations and Richard's Keynote presentation.

Produced by The Richard Dawkins Foundation and R. Elisabeth Cornwell

Filmed and edited by Josh Timonen

See more about Richard Dawkins' upcoming book "The Greatest Show on Earth" here:
http://richarddawkins.net/thegreatest...

This talk was given in Michigan, Minneapolis, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

Filmed at:
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, Minnesota
University of Oklahoma - Norman, Oklahoma
Holland Performing Arts Center - Omaha, Nebraska

Introductions by:
PZ Myers - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Barry Weaver - Norman, Oklahoma
Richard Holland - Omaha, Nebraska

Filmed and Edited by Josh Timonen
Shot on Red One #4809

http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue40/3/toc.html

Complexity, Compassion and Self-Organisation: Human Evolution and the Vulnerable Ape Hypothesis

Nick P. Winder and Isabelle C. Winder

A new evolutionary theory explains how critically small populations of early humans survived, despite an increased chance of hereditary disabilities being passed to offspring. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-vulnerability-human-early-ancestors-disability.html#jCp

A new evolutionary theory explains how critically small populations of early humans survived, despite an increased chance of hereditary disabilities being passed to offspring.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-vulnerability-human-early-ancestors-disability.html#jCp
http://phys.org/news/2015-06-vulnerability-human-early-ancestors-disability.html

CARTA: Culture-Gene Interactions: Peter Richerson-Culture-led Gene-culture Coevolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GonV1ER8Ubo

CARTA: Culture-Gene Interactions: Peter Richerson-Culture-led Gene-culture Coevolution

(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) In the classic nature-nurture dichotomy, nature has a stronger or weaker influence on nurture, but certainly nurture was supposed to have no impact on nature. Human culture is often taken to be a form of nurture. However, culture itself has evolutionary properties. In particular, culture generates novel environments that in turn select for novel genes. A few dramatic cases of this effect are well known and many more are suspected. Peter Richerson, UC Davis, explains why the nature-nurture dichotomy is an impediment to clear thinking and should be abandoned. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 24108]

21. Evolutionary Medicine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4umCVdJfng

21. Evolutionary Medicine

Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (EEB 122)

Evolution plays an important though underutilized role in medicine. Evolution guides how our bodies respond to various treatments, how pathogens will respond to treatments, and how pathogens' responses will change over time. Pathogens oftentimes will evolve to an intermediate level of virulence where they become strong enough to infect a host and reproduce, but not so strong as to kill the host before it can spread the pathogen.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction 
06:40 - Chapter 2. "Thrifty Phenotypes" 
11:36 - Chapter 3. Auto-immune Diseases in Developed and Undeveloped Countries 
17:27 - Chapter 4. Treating Auto-immune Diseases 
26:20 - Chapter 5. Pathogen Evolution 
37:40 - Chapter 6. Virulence 
47:16 - Chapter 7. Summary 

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Spring 2009.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7CSzmibhic

Cultural Contingency and Gene - Culture Coevolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0sqg3EHm8

Why do women have sex? (David Buss & Cindy Meston at CASW 2009)

Many of us think we know the answer to that one. Three obvious guesses might be: For pleasure, because theyre in love, or to have children. And we might think of a few more if we worked at it. David Buss and Cindy Meston asked 1,500 women why they had sex, and they came up with a list of 237 different reasons. The research covers sexual attraction, orgasm and pleasure, love and bonding, and such things as sexual competition among women, and effects on social status and reputation.

Lecture on Sexual Conflict Theory delivered by evolutionary psychology professor Dr. David Buss of the University of Texas at Austin. This talk given at USM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq-k_0gdzIk

Lecture on Sexual Conflict Theory delivered by evolutionary psychology professor Dr. David Buss of the University of Texas at Austin. This talk given at USM.

HBES Interview Series - David Buss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vefmqWgEdlY

HBES Interview Series - David Buss

Today's interview in the series "On the Origin of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society" is David Buss, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. David is one of the founders of evolutionary psychology but initially made significant contributions to personality psychology. He is perhaps best known for groundbreaking work in human sex differences and mating including jealousy, cross-cultural mate preferences (as he discusses from 17:21-28:50) and the strategies people use to capture and retain a mate. Oftentimes his discoveries come with their own snappy nomenclature like "mate poaching" and exploitability. David professes he is especially interested in the "dark side" (e.g.) of human nature. Many of the initial forays David made into new territory have spawned whole new lines of research.

I'd be remiss to not mention many of David's more colorful qualities as recounted by myself and his other former graduate students. David is a self-described "hyperadaptationist"; he sees psychological adaptations everywhere. Once, during a seminar at his house David mentioned to us that his puppy, Dexter Darwin, sleeping in his lap was "parasitizing his parental mechanisms". Similarly, David also takes a keen interest in how evolutionary psychology principles manifest in real life. At parties you'll often see him asking questions and listening avidly while people describe their romantic lives, relationship dissolutions and aggressive interactions. It's not just David's scientific perspective but his charm that have led him to have such an impact on the field and the wider public. A feminist friend of mine told me that meeting and talking with David reversed her negative preconceived notions about evolutionary psychology and psychologists. David's incisive understanding of mating psychology is only rivaled by his difficulty with modern technology. Once, during a lecture attended by hundreds of students a mobile phone began ringing loudly and continuously. After a few tense minutes David finally realized the sound was emanating from his briefcase which he put outside after unsuccessfully trying to silence the phone!


Some highlights of this interview include David's rebellious roots and how an early hypothesis about dominance was purely designed to upset one of his teachers (1:00), how he began to acclimatize to John Tooby and Leda Cosmides' night owl schedule when they became fast friends at Harvard (13:00-13:43), the advice he would give to graduate students (32:00) and the way he demonstrates how to derogate a rival male on his interviewer and former graduate student Barry X. Kuhle, maybe a little too effectively (21:00). ~written by Diana Fleischman

This video was created by Subconscious Prime Productions:
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Leda Cosmides and John Tooby on Evolutionary Psychology

http://on.aol.com/video/interview-with-evolutionary-psychologists-leda-cosmides-and-john-tooby-374419416

Learn about the extended interview with Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, two pioneers and leading light 

Learn about the extended interview with Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, two pioneers and leading lights in the field of evolutionary psychology. This multidisciplinary approach seeks to develop a better understanding of human nature by taking seriously the idea that our brains evolved to solve a variety of adaptive problems.

Tags: Interview with Evolutionary Psychologists,evolutionary psychologist,Evolutionary Psychology,john tooby,leda cosmides,Reason.TV,drew carey,libertarianism

Leda Cosmides & John Tooby ZURICH.MINDS Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QLvXl5Tq80

Leda Cosmides & John Tooby ZURICH.MINDS Part 1

Leda Cosmides & John Tooby at ZURICH.MINDS FLAGSHIP EVENT 2010 on Evolutionary Psychology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpIlIkzoZCo

HBES Interview Series - Leda Cosmides

This is an interview with Dr. Leda Cosmides conducted in July, 2013 for the "On the Origin of HBES: An Oral History Project" I'm co-leading with Catherine Salmon and Dave Lundberg-Kenrick. Notable moments included: 

(1) how being 5 minutes late to a meeting with E. O. Wilson (when she was an undergrad at Harvard) was "key to her future" 

(2) discussion of her showing up at David Buss' office while she was a grad student at Harvard because she heard he was talking about evolution in one of his psychology courses

(3) how she (and collaborator/husband John Tooby) were the Jackie Robinsons of psychology for breaking the "evolution barrier" by being the first out-of-the-closet evolutionary psychologists to be hired as such (after many failed attempts to land positions)

(4) how her seminal and award winning 1989 paper on cheater detection took 4 years and several rejections before getting published in Cognition

(5) why she called the field she and John helped start "evolutionary psychology" as opposed to "human sociobiology"

(6) which of her papers she feels has had the greatest and weakest impacts on the field

My admiration and adoration for Leda knows no bounds. I hope you enjoy hearing her candid reflections and remembrances as much as I did.

~ Barry X. Kuhle


This video was created by Subconscious Prime Productions, LLC:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUE-c5IvDRY

Experts in Emotion 4.1 -- Leda Cosmides & John Tooby on Evolution and Emotion

Experts in Emotion Series; June Gruber, Yale University

In this episode, Dr. June Gruber will speak about Evolution and Emotion with Drs. Leda Cosmides and John Tooby from U.C. Santa Barbara. Drs. Cosmides and Tooby will share what first got them interested in this topic and highlight a few core themes in their research. We will then hear Drs. Cosmides and Tooby share what they see as the most exciting future discoveries in store on this subject. The interview will conclude with a few words of advice for getting involved in the field of emotion from Drs. Cosmides and Tooby.

00:00 Chapter 1. Introduction to Dr. Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.
00:14 Chapter 2. What got you interested in studying emotion?
04:55 Chapter 3. What are the central discoveries of your work?
21:51 Chapter 4. What do you see in store for the future of emotion?
21:51 Chapter 5. What is your advice to viewers?

The Experts in Emotion Series provides a unique opportunity to explore the mysteries of human emotion guided by some of the world's foremost experts on the subject, ranging from distinguished academics to leading figures behind social media services like Facebook. In addition to tackling central questions such as what emotions are, why we have them, and how our understanding of them can lead to happier and healthier lives, you'll also hear first-hand about what first led these key players to study emotion and what they see as the most exciting frontiers ahead. This series is part of a broader educational mission to share the study of human emotion beyond the boundaries of the classroom in order to reach students and teachers alike, both locally and globally, through the use of technology. This mission is generously supported by, and in collaboration with, the Yale Office of Digital Dissemination and the Yale College Dean's Office. This series was recorded and produced by Douglas Forbush, Lucas Swineford, and the Yale Broadcasting and Media Center.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roqTXf5UNyc

The Human Spark : So Human So Chimp (Episode 2) (PBS)

Konrad Lorenz - Aggression (1975)

https://youtu.be/uoJO-tNWaWc

Konrad Lorenz - Aggression (1975)

Konrad Lorenz and Richard Evans discuss aggression, sex vs. violence, criticisms, war vs. peace models. 1975

From Darwin to DNA: The Genetic Basis of Animal Behavior

https://youtu.be/Er9WC5485Zk

From Darwin to DNA: The Genetic Basis of Animal Behavior

April 2, 2014

Evolution Matters Lecture Series: Lecture by Hopi Hoekstra, Professor of Zoology and Curator of Mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

How do certain animals, such as wild mice, evolve their most critical survival traits, including skin coloration, body shape, and the ability to dig elaborate tunnels in order to hide from predators? How fast can successive generations acquire visible traits, and how do animal genes and behavior interact? Evolutionary geneticist Hopi Hoekstra and colleagues have combined extensive field research with the latest techniques in DNA analysis to unlock one of biology’s most elusive secrets: the genes that control behavior.

The Evolution Matters Lecture Series is supported by a generous gift from Drs. Herman and Joan Suit.

Categoria

https://youtu.be/g4sJj888Qnc

Debating Darwin: How Jerry Fodor Slid Down the Slippery Slope to Anti-Darwinism

Social Darwinism

https://youtu.be/SV-zEzj0Dd0

Social Darwinism

Prof. Richard Bulliet
History W3903 section 001
Session 16: Social Darwinism
HISTORY OF THE WORLD SINCE 1500CE

Suggested reading

http://www.cep.ucsb.edu/reading.html

Suggested reading

Below is a list of readings suggested for people interested in learning more about evolutionary psychology and the issues that surround it compiled by the members of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology. Note that this is not an exhaustive list. Apologies for any incomplete or omitted references.

Kevin Laland - The Evolution of Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC7NJ7ZMaRs

Kevin Laland - The Evolution of Culture

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Both demographically and ecologically, humans are a remarkably successful species. This success is generally attributed to our capacity for culture. But how did our species' extraordinary culturalcapabilities evolve from its roots in animal social learning and tradition? In this seminar, Laland will provide a provisional answer. After characterizing contemporary research into animal social learning, he will focus in on a case study of stickleback learning that illustrates the strategic nature of animal copying. Laland will go on to describe the findings of an international competition (the "social learning strategies tournament") that he organized to investigate the best way to learn. Laland will suggest that the tournament sheds light on why copying is widespread in nature, and why humans happen to be so good at it. Finally, he will end by describing some other theoretical and experimental projects suggesting feedback mechanisms that may have been instrumental to the evolution of Culture.

NICHE CONSTRUCTION AND EVOLUTION

http://lalandlab.st-andrews.ac.uk/niche/Evolution.html

NICHE CONSTRUCTION AND EVOLUTION

Cultural Neuroscience: Bridging Cultural and Biological Sciences

https://youtu.be/G8pZlupf-7o

Joan Chiao - Cultural Neuroscience: Bridging Cultural and Biological Sciences

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Chiao is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. She studies how cultural and biological forces give rise to everyday emotion and social interaction. Research in her lab also examines how high-level factors, such as race, gender and age, affect basic cognitive, perceptual and emotional processes.

How The Human Mind Was Born(full documentary)HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9_Mo8Pxq-s

How The Human Mind Was Born(full documentary)HD

Human evolution is the evolutionary process leading up to the appearance of modern humans. While it began with the last common ancestor of all life, the topic usually covers only the evolutionary history of primates, in particular the genus Homo, and the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of hominids . The study of human evolution involves many scientific disciplines, including physical anthropology, primatology, archaeology, paleontology, ethology, linguistics, evolutionary psychology, embryology and genetics.

Jane Goodall on Chimpanzee and Human Emotions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXsYIeg9WNQ

Jane Goodall on Chimpanzee and Human Emotions

Primatologist Jane Goodall delivers a lecture on the similarities between chimpanzee and human emotions, preserving the environment, and hope.