Evolutionary Anthropology Society

Evolutionary Anthropology Society Newsletter

2021-11-09T00:00:00+01:00

Report from the Presidents

Greetings EAS Members,

Happy Fall! With the changing seasons this year comes some big changes for the Evolutionary Anthropology Society. As many of you know, we have been having discussions for several years about the future of EAS, and its place within the AAA. This year we will be making a final decision about what our future will look like both within and outside of the American Anthropological Association. These discussions will take place at our annual board and business meetings (details below). The business meeting is open to all members and will be held on Zoom. Please attend if you can.

This year AAA is holding a hybrid meeting, including some events which will take place outside of the traditional meeting week. In particular, our board and business meetings will both be held on November 10th. The business meeting will be held from 6-8pmEST/3-5PST. The Zoom link for the meeting is: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/7274654285

We have many exciting sessions, both in person and virtually, at this year’s meeting in Baltimore. These are listed at the end of this newsletter. If you have not yet registered we encourage you to do so. Discounted rates are available for those who are attending virtually.

For students and postdocs attending the meeting (either in person or virtually), we are hoping to have extra funding this year to help you cover the costs of the meeting. A call will be going out for reimbursements once the meeting has ended, so save your receipts!

Finally, we are still looking for someone to take over for the wonderful Delaney Glass as newsletter editor for EAS. Typically this post is filled by a student, who works closely with the President, President-Elect and Past-President to get out our quarterly newsletters to members. If you are interested, please email me at bscelza@gmail.com with a short statement about your interest.

Sincerely, Brooke Scelza, EAS President Karen Kramer, EAS President-Elect Mary Shenk, EAS Past-President

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 (pre-conference activity)

Evolutionary Anthropology Society Business Meeting 4:00 PM – 6:00PM Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/7274654285

Thursday, November 18, 2021

(2-1543) Children Foraging in a Changing World

Roundtable / Townhall (Virtual) Evolutionary Anthropology Society 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Karen Kramer, Ilaria Pretelli, Edmond Dounias, Almudena Mari Saez, Sagan Friant, Sheina Lew- Levy, Alyssa Crittenden, Jeremy Koster, Shani Mangola

(2-1590) Art, Science, or Politics? The Crisis in Hunter-Gatherer Studies, 30 years Later

Cosponsored Session - Oral Presentation (In-Person)* Evolutionary Anthropology Society 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM Melanie Martin, Alyssa Crittenden, Helen Davis, Robert Hitchcock, Richard Lee, Shani Mangola

(2-1380) Evolutionary Perspectives on Health and Reproduction

Cosponsored Session - Oral Presentation (In-Person) Evolutionary Anthropology Society 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Sean Prall, Katherine Wander, Siobhan Mattison, Kathrine Starkweather, Melanie Martin, Brooke Scelza, Nurul Alam, Tami Blumenfield, Mary Shenk

(2-1220) Living in Groups, Truth and Responsibility: The Ecology of Cooperation and Conflicts in Families, Communities and Societies

Oral Presentation (In-Person) Evolutionary Anthropology Society 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Eric Schniter, Juan Garcia, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, Diego Guevara Beltran, Brenda Bowen, Jory Lerback, Jeremy Koster, Jenna Kurten, Jeffrey Winking, Jane Lankes, Mary Towner, Mary Shenk

Friday, November 19, 2021

(3-1992) Researcher responsibilities and responses during the COVID-19 pandemic

Roundtable / Townhall (Virtual) Evolutionary Anthropology Society 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM Tiffany Alvarez, Sera Young, Jessica Brinkworth, Cecilia Tomori, Kayla Hurd, Melanie Martin, Brooke Scelza, Christopher von Rueden, Jeremy Koster

(3-2260) Experimental Approaches to Truth and Responsibility

Oral Presentation (Virtual) Society for Anthropological Sciences 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM Christine Legare, Ben Kenward, Jordan Kiper, Ulises Espinoza, Alejandro Erut, H. Clark Barrett, Joshua Homan, Danijela Jerotijevic

(3-2300) Engaging Pedagogy, Publics, and Perception in Biological Anthropology

Volunteered - Oral Presentation (In-Person) Biological Anthropology Section 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Alex Pelissero, Erik Schulz, Sherrie Alexander, Douglas Crews, Lucia Elgerud (individual posters-papers)

(3-2385) Credit vs Market on the Northwest Coast (Another Anomaly?)

Poster (In-Person) Evolutionary Anthropology Society 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM Igor Valerievich Kuznetsov

(3-2462) Behavioral Ecology of Post-Marital Residence Among Sena Horticulturalists in Mozambique

Poster (In-Person) Evolutionary Anthropology Society 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM Karl Mertens

(3-2332) Effects of family demographics and household economics on Sidama children’s nutritional status

Poster (In-Person) Biological Anthropology Section 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Courtney Helfrecht

(3-2464) BAS Distinguished Lecture, Awards, and Reception

Distinguished Lecture (In-Person) Biological Anthropology Section 8:00 PM - 11:30 PM Rachel Caspari

Saturday, November 20, 2021

(4-3294) Bringing Truth to a Post-Truth World: how anthropologists engage and assess their science communication

Cosponsored Session - Roundtable / Townhall (Virtual) Biological Anthropology Section 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM Melanie Beasley, Tina Lasisi, Christopher Schmitt, Keneiloe Molopyane, Cara Ocobock, Marc Kissel, Holly Dunsworth

(0-1040) Fat Talk: How anthropologists approach the topics of obesity, fat bias, and body image in different cultural and health contexts.

Podcast (Virtual) Biological Anthropology Section Alexandra Niclou, Sophie To, Katherine Daiy, Jennifer Cullin, Kendall Arslanian, Kayla Hurd

Events and Announcements

EHBEA 2022 will be hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in the vibrant city of Leipzig, Germany, from the 19th to the 22nd of April. For more details go here.

The AABA will be having their annual meeting in Denver March 23-26. EAS will likely hold a social event at the meeting. Stay tuned for more details.

Two EAS members have recently been interviewed for the Sausage of Science Podcast, hosted by Chris Lynn and Cara Ocobock.

Brooke Scelza: soundcloud
Katie Starkweather: soundcloud

Recent Member Publications

Bryce, Authors, et al. “Biology’s best friend: Bridging disciplinary gaps to advance canine science.” Integrative and Comparative Biology (2021).

Crittenden, Alyssa N., et al. “Harm avoidance and mobility during middle childhood and adolescence among Hadza foragers.” Human Nature (2021): 1-27.

Davis, Helen Elizabeth, Alyssa N. Crittenden, and Michelle Scalise Sugiyama. “Ecological and Developmental Perspectives on Social Learning.” Human Nature 32.1 (2021): 1-15.

Jaeggi, Adrian V., et al. “Do wealth and inequality associate with health in a small-scale subsistence society?.” Elife 10 (2021): e59437.

Kramer, K. JV Hackman, R. Schacht & HE Davis.Effects of family planning on fertikity behaviour across the demographic transition. Scientific Reports (2021): 10.1038/s41598-021-86180-8.

Lawson, David W., et al. “Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women’s wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania.” Evolution and Human Behavior 42.2 (2021): 165-175.

Lew-Levy, Sheina, et al. “The life history of learning subsistence skills among Hadza and BaYaka foragers from Tanzania and the Republic of Congo.” Human Nature (2021): 1-32.

Mattison, Siobhán M., et al. “Gender differences in social networks based on prevailing kinship norms in the Mosuo of China.” Social Sciences 10.7 (2021): 253.

Pisor, Anne C., and James Holland Jones. “Do people manage climate risk through long‐distance relationships?.” American Journal of Human Biology 33.4 (2021): e23525.

Scelza, Brooke, Sean Prall, and Kathrine Starkweather. “The role of spousal separation on norms related to gender and sexuality among Himba pastoralists.” Social Sciences 10.5 (2021): 174.

Shenk, Mary K., et al. “Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376.1827 (2021): 20200027.

Starkweather, K. E., et al. “Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children.” Developmental Psychobiology (2021).

Winking, Jeffrey, and Jeremy Koster. “Small-scale utilitarianism: High acceptance of utilitarian solutions to Trolley Problems among a horticultural population in Nicaragua.” PloS one 16.4 (2021): e0249345.

Wood, Brian M., et al. “Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers.” Nature human behaviour 5.4 (2021): 436-446.

Evolutionary Anthropology Society Newsletter

2021-05-04T00:00:00+02:00

Report from the Presidents

Greetings EAS Members,

Happy Spring! I hope with the traditional rebirth of spring everyone is also starting to see the burgeoning of a return to normal (or at least semi-normal) post-pandemic life. We are gearing up for the AAA 2021 meeting, which will be held in hybrid form in Baltimore and online this coming November. Since we did not hold sessions at the 2020 virtual meeting, we have offered those who had sessions accepted for that meeting the chance to push them forward to 2021. Since these sessions will fill the allotted slots that our section gets, EAS will not do a separate call for papers this year. However, we encourage our members to put together sessions and submit individual papers. Those papers are still highly likely to be accepted and, as in previous years, EAS will list sessions with our members on its website and promote them via social media. For more details on AAA registration and abstract submission go to: https://annualmeeting.americananthro.org/. Deadline to begin a new submission is May 21, 2021 at 3pm EDT. Please note the time, as the portal will close to new submissions promptly at that time.

As many of you might be aware, recently it was discovered that professors associated with Princeton University and the Penn Museum were using the remains of children killed in the 1985 police bombing of members of the MOVE organization in Philadelphia in an online forensic anthropology course. The use of these children’s remains, without informed consent from their families, violates AAA ethical standards and represents conduct that moves us away from, instead of closer to, the kind of just and equitable anthropology we are striving toward.

The AAA has put out a statement condemning the handling of the remains of the Philadelphia bombing victims, which we fully support. A link to the statement can be found here and a link to a press conference held by the MOVE families is available here. We hope that if you are not already familiar with the details of this incident that you will review these materials. As anthropologists it is our duty to continue to grapple with the ethics and politics of using human remains in our teaching and research, and to condemn their mishandling when it occurs.

Finally, we are looking for someone to take over for the wonderful Delaney Glass as newsletter editor for EAS. Typically this post is filled by a student, who works closely with the President, President-Elect and Past-President to get out our quarterly newsletters to members. If you are interested, please email me at bscelza@gmail.com with a short statement about your interest.

Sincerely, Brooke Scelza, EAS President Karen Kramer, EAS President-Elect Mary Shenk, EAS Past-President

Events and Announcements

Jane Lancaster, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology at University of New Mexico, a longstanding member of EAS and the founding editor of Human Nature was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). An article describing her contributions to the field can be found here. Congratulations Jane on this enormous achievement!

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Distinguished Research Professor at UC Davis, another longstanding EAS member, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations Monique!

HBES 2021 will be held virtually this year from June 24-July 2. More information on the conference, plenary speakers and details on registration can be found at https://conference2021.hbes.com/.

Recent Member Publications

Broesch, Tanya, et al. “Opportunities for Interaction.” Human Nature (2021): 1-31.

Cepon-Robins, Tara J., et al. “Pathogen disgust sensitivity protects against infection in a high pathogen environment.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.8 (2021).

Davis, Helen Elizabeth, Alyssa N. Crittenden, and Michelle Scalise Sugiyama. “Ecological and Developmental Perspectives on Social Learning.” Human Nature (2021): 1-15.

DeLouize, Alicia M., et al. “Low prevalence of anemia among Shuar communities of Amazonian Ecuador.” American Journal of Human Biology (2021): e23590.

Hooper, Paul L., Hillard S. Kaplan, and Adrian V. Jaeggi. “Gains to cooperation drive the evolution of egalitarianism.” Nature Human Behaviour (2021): 1-10.

Jones, James Holland, et al. “How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences?.” American Journal of Human Biology (2021): e23592.

Kramer, Karen L., Joe Hackman, Ryan Schacht, and Helen E. Davis. “Effects of family planning on fertility behaviour across the demographic transition.” Scientific Reports 11, no. 1 (2021): 1-12.

Scaggs, Shane A., Drew Gerkey, and Katherine R. McLaughlin. “Linking subsistence harvest diversity and productivity to adaptive capacity in an Alaskan food sharing network.” American Journal of Human Biology (2021): e23573.

Schaffnit, Susan B., et al. ““I have never seen something like that”: Discrepancies between lived experiences and the global health concept of child marriage in northern Tanzania.” PloS one 16.4 (2021): e0249200.

Schniter, Eric, et al. “Age appropriate wisdom? Ethnobiological knowledge ontogeny in pastoralist Mexican Choyeros.” (2020).

Shennan, Stephen, and Rebecca Sear. “Archaeology, demography and life history theory together can help us explain past and present population patterns.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376.1816 (2021): 20190711.

Smith, Eric Alden, and Brian F. Codding. “Ecological variation and institutionalized inequality in hunter-gatherer societies.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 13 (2021).

Sznajder, Kristin, et al. “Labor Migration Is Associated With Lower Rates of Underweight and Higher Rates of Obesity Among Left-behind Wives in Rural Bangladesh: a Cross-sectional Study.” (2021).

2020-2021 Awards Competition Call for Papers

2021-01-20T00:00:00+01:00

The Evolutionary Anthropology Society is soliciting submissions for their annual awards for Best Student and Best New Investigator. Due to the cancellation of in-person sessions at the 2020 AAA Annual Meeting, EAS has decided to base their awards on paper submissions, in lieu of our typical process of awarding presentations at the meeting. Papers do not have to be based on proposed talks for the 2020 meeting, but should be current work that has not been presented at previous AAA meetings and is currently unpublished. Winners in both categories will have the option to publish their paper at Human Nature (pending peer review) through a special submission process, if their submission has not already been published elsewhere.

Submissions should be sent to bscelza@gmail.com by March 15, 2021. An EAS awards committee will review submissions and winners will be announced in April of 2021.

Eligibility: Papers may be submitted by individuals who held an EAS membership in either 2019-2020 or 2020-2021.

Student Award: individuals who are currently enrolled in either a Masters or PhD program
New Investigator Award: individuals who received their PhD in the last 5 years

Submission Details: The person submitting should be the first author of their paper, and that paper should be currently unpublished. Papers must be no more than 10,000 words (excluding references) with an abstract of 200 words. If you are planning to submit your paper to Human Nature if it wins, please follow the formatting requirements on their website. Please submit your paper in one of the following formats (.doc, .pdf) to bscelza@gmail.com by 11:59pm on March 15, 2021. Please put “EAS Paper Competition” in the subject line of your email.

A pdf copy of this call is available here

Evolutionary Anthropology Society Newsletter

2020-12-14T00:00:00+01:00

Report from the Presidents

Greetings EAS Members,

Normally, our December newsletter would contain a summary of our recent annual meeting, but as you know, this year is not at all like other years. While the AAA did hold a virtual meeting (and I hope some of you were able to attend) EAS did not have sessions. We did, however, hold virtual board and business meetings where we discussed the future of the society, ways to stay connected during COVID, and strategies for improving our membership numbers and engaging more meaningfully with students.

The plan discussed at our meetings was to continue to enact the mandate that was set for us in previous discussions and votes: to set up plans to begin a potential transition from AAA to the AAPA (soon to be AABA). To that end, President-elect Karen Kramer and I will be setting up meeting with the AAPA leadership in the new year to discuss specifics. If there is an in-person meeting in Baltimore we may also try to organize a joint AAPA/EAS event. Stay tuned for details.

Although we were unable to hold EAS sessions this year, we want to continue the tradition of awarding students and new investigators who are doing innovative and exciting work within the evolutionary social sciences. To that end, we will be holding a paper competition for students (in MA or PhD programs) and new investigators (those within 5 years of completing the PhD). Submissions should be sent to bscelza@gmail.com by February 15, 2021. An official call for papers will go out on social media and to our listserv shortly. An EAS awards committee will read and judge the papers, and winners will be announced in the spring newsletter and on our website.

We are also working to increase our presence on social media. If you don’t already follow our Twitter (@evanthsociety ) and Facebook groups, please do. We are working to retweet as many EAS papers and announcements as possible.

I’m sure we are all more than ready to say goodbye to 2020. On that note, see you in 2021!

Brooke Scelza, EAS President Karen Kramer, EAS President-Elect Mary Shenk, EAS Past-President

Recruitment

TT position open in Evolutionary Ecology at University of Utah

Post-Doc/Visiting Scientist at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa

TT position in Psychology (specialisation biopsychology) at Oklahoma State University

TT position at The University of Southern Mississippi (biocultural)

Associate/Full Professor position open at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa (Medical/Psychological)

TT position in Biological Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago

TT position in Anthropology of Health (Biological Anthropology) at the University of Toronto- Mississauga

Four positions (Assistant, Associate, and Full) at the University of Connecticut (Environment & Human Interactions) hiring

NTT Full-time lecturer position at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (Biological Anthropology or Bioarchaeology)

McKennan Post-Doc Fellowship (Cultural/Medical Anthropology) at Dartmouth

Recent Member Publications

The Milpa Game: a Field Experiment Investigating the Social and Ecological Dynamics of Q’eqchi’Maya Swidden Agriculture By: Sean S Downey, Drew Gerkey, & Shane A Scaggs

Comparative Study of Territoriality across Forager Societies By: Mark Moritz, Shane Scaggs, Craig Shapiro & Sarah Hinkelman

Market integration and soil-transmitted helminth infection among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador By: Theresa E Gildner, Tara J Cepon-Robins, Melissa A Liebert, Samuel S Urlacher, Joshua M Schrock, Christopher J Harrington, Felicia C Madimenos, J Josh Snodgrass, & Lawrence S Sugiyama

Human adaptation to climate change: An introduction to the special issue By: Anne C Pisor & James H Jones

Matriliny reverses gender disparities in inflammation and hypertension among the Mosuo of China By: Adam Z Reynolds, Katherine Wander, Chun-Yi Sum, Mingjie Su, Melissa Emery Thompson, Paul L Hooper, Hui Li, Mary K Shenk, Kathrine E Starkweather, Tami Blumenfield, & Siobhán M Mattison

Synergies between the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease framework and multiple branches of evolutionary anthropology By: Luseadra McKerracher Ruby Fried Andrew W. Kim Tina Moffat Deborah M. Sloboda, & Tracey Galloway

Rapidly declining body temperature in a tropical human population By: Michael Gurven, Thomas S Kraft, Sarah Alami, Juan Copajira Adrian, Edhitt Cortez Linares, Daniel Cummings, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Paul L Hooper, Adrian V Jaeggi, Raul Quispe Gutierrez, Ivan Maldonado Suarez, Edmond Seabright, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, & Benjamin Trumble

Mother’s social status is associated with child health in a horticulturalist population By: Sarah Alami, Christopher Von Rueden, Edmond Seabright, Thomas S Kraft, Aaron D Blackwell, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, & Michael Gurven

Deciding what to observe: Thoughts for a post-WEIRD generation By: Clark H. Barrett

Strengthening the evolutionary social sciences with more data, less ‘theory-worship By: Rebecca Sear

Resource demands reduce partner discrimination in Himba women By: Sean P. Prall and Brooke A. Scelza

Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations By: Tanya Broesch, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Bret A. Beheim, Aaron D. Blackwell, John A. Bunce, Heidi Colleran, Kristin Hagel, Michelle Kline, Richard McElreath, Robin G. Nelson, Anne C. Pisor, Sean Prall, Ilaria Pretelli, Benjamin Purzycki, Elizabeth A. Quinn, Cody Ross, Brooke Scelza, Kathrine Starkweather, Jonathan Stieglitz and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

Other Media

Evolutionary Anthropology in the Time of COVID-19 By: Mallika Sarma & Agustín Fuentes

HBES Roundtable Series (1) Beyond WEIRD: A decade later (2) Life history theory as applied to inter-individual variation

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

2020-08-17T00:00:00+02:00

Report from the Presidents

EAS Members,

First and foremost, we hope that this email finds all of you in good health. This has been a challenging few months for all of us, with no end in sight. As such, I imagine EAS news is probably far from your thoughts, but we wanted to mention a few key updates that take us into planning for the next year.

As you all know by now, the 2020 AAA meeting in St. Louis has been canceled. Individual abstracts and sessions that were submitted last spring will automatically be forwarded to next year’s program committee, where the final round of decisions will be made. That means if you submitted an abstract or session proposal for the 2020 meeting, they will automatically repopulate when the call for papers goes out for the 2021 meeting, so you don’t have to resubmit.

While the in-person meeting has been canceled, the AAA will convene in the fall as a virtual event with the theme of Raising Our Voices. This is by design intended to be a new venue given that a live meeting cannot be held until 2021, and is focused on collaboration and conversation rather than presentation style data delivery. There are two types of submissions: Live Stream, which have a limited offering of 160 sessions (4 back-to-back sessions, 4 time slots a day, for 10 days), and View-On-Demand submissions, which include different kinds of venues and will be unlimited. If you are interested in putting together a virtual session or roundtable discussion, the deadline for submission to this new program is August 25th, and you will use the same platform to submit as the regular meeting.

We are particularly interested in hosting sessions that are either focused on (a) topics related to race, equity, justice and representation in the evolutionary social sciences, or (b) topics related to conducting and maintaining research from afar during COVID times.

With the cancellation of most meetings this year, and possibly well into 2021, conversations about potentially moving EAS away from AAA have stalled. If AAPA (soon to be AABA) occurs in 2021 we look forward to having an informal presence there, as we had planned for the LA meeting, and moving forward with discussions on details of a potential move with their executive committee. Right now the call for papers for AAPA is up, with an October 15th deadline.

We hope that all of you stay safe and healthy this summer and wish you the best of luck with whatever transitions lie ahead of you at your universities.

Brooke Scelza, President

Karen Kramer, President-Elect

Mary Shenk, Past President

Events

AAA Raising Our Voices (Session & Roundtables) Deadline August 25th, 2020

AAPA call for abstracts, deadline October 15th, 2020

Bioant Talks Youtube Conferences: AnthroEthics in the 21st Century (09/28-10/02) and AnthroEvolution Material Cultural (10/05-10/09). More information can be found here

Recruitment

Post-doc opportunity with Melanie Martin at The University of Washington in Biological Anthropology (priority given to applications already received by August 15th).

Recent Member Publications

Beyond the Household: Caribbean Families and Biocultural Models of Alloparenting By: Robin Nelson

The formal demography of kinship II: Multistate models, parity, and sibship By: Hal Caswell

Why understanding multiplex social network structuring processes will help us better understand the evolution of human behavior By: Curtis Atkisson Piotr J. Górski Matthew O. Jackson Janusz A. Hołyst Raissa M. D’Souza

Global WEIRDing: transitions in wild plant knowledge and treatment preferences in Congo hunter–gatherers By: Gul Deniz Salali , Mark Dyble, Nikhil Chaudhary, Gaurav Sikka, Inez Derkx, Sarai M. Keestra, Daniel Smith, James Thompson, Lucio Vinicius and Andrea Bamberg Migliano

Women’s socioeconomic position in ontogeny is associated with improved immune function and lower stress, but not with height By: Anna Rubika, Severi Luoto, Tatjana Krama, Giedrius Trakimas, Markus J. Rantala, Fhionna R. Moore, Ilona Skrinda, Didzis Elferts, Ronalds Krams, Jorge Contreras-Garduño & Indrikis A. Krams

Fitness-maximizers employ pessimistic probability weighting for decisions under risk By: Michael Holton Price and James Holland Jones

Other Media

There is a new website for The Evolutionary Genetics of Humans & Other Primates Journal Club

Evolving Minds: Learning as Evolution, Evolution as Learning By: Dustin Eirdosh & Susan Hanisch

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

2020-05-15T00:00:00+02:00

Report from the Presidents

Dear EAS Members,

We hope that you are all managing to find some peace and balance in these challenging times. So much has changed since our last newsletter in February.

The EAS board has met several times to discuss ways that we can respond as a society to the COVID-19 pandemic. Last month you should have received an email that EAS signed on to, in conjunction with the Cultural Evolution Society (CES) and the European Human Behavior and Evolution Association (EHBEA). In that email we called for our members to think about ways that they could engage with the communities they work with, in conjunction with local and national entities where possible, to pass on information about the pandemic and how to prevent transmission of the disease. We appreciate that our members may be variably comfortable with taking on such work. Some may have pre-established relationships with public health organizations or government ministries and can work through them. Others of us may not have these collaborations in place, but might use this situation as an opportunity to think about building such links. We are not advocating any particular strategy, just encouraging our members to think about these issues as they pertain to the communities they work with.

A second focus of our meetings was to discuss the ways in which COVID-related restrictions are impacting our research and scholarship, particularly for students, post-docs and junior scholars who may have been displaced from pursuing or continuing their field work, or do not have long-term datasets to draw upon to continue their research. In order to think about ways to lessen the impact of these disruptions, we are planning a Zoom meeting for interested parties to share suggestions and strategize ways that we as a society can help to bring parties together and facilitate collaborative relationships. Therefore, we encourage both junior and senior colleagues to attend. If you are interested, please RSVP to me (Brooke) by responding to this email and we will send you a link to the Zoom meeting (planned for sometime in late May).

Finally, we discussed how conference cancellations have impacted our plans for the future of EAS. Our previous plan was to have an EAS sponsored event at the AAPA meetings in Los Angeles last month. The goal of this gathering was to bring together current EAS members who attend HBA/AAPA and to draw in potential new members and hear their thoughts (informally) about EAS joining them. Given the cancellation of AAPA, our next opportunity to get together as a group will be at the AAA meetings in St. Louis. We had a number of exciting talks submitted and look forward to a full slate of EAS sessions this year. Between now and then, we will continue to reach out to officers at AAPA to gain a fuller understanding of what an EAS/AAPA hybrid could look like and will report on these meetings at our business meeting in the fall.

Speaking of AAA, if you have not yet submitted your abstract, the deadline to do so has been extended to May 15th. If you did not submit an abstract to EAS you can still submit your abstract directly to AAA and mark EAS as the section you would like to review it. We encourage you to submit abstracts in the next two weeks, and we look forward to seeing you all in St. Louis (hopefully in person!).

Sincerely,

Brooke Scelza (President)

Karen Kramer (President-Elect)

Mary Shenk (Past President)

Recruitment

New degree in Human Biology at Washington State University

New study on Pregnancy & Birth during COVID-19 Pandemic recruiting participants at the University of Illinois-Chicago

NSF is looking for a new program director in Geography/Anthropology

Dr. Melanie Martin is organizing a session at the next AAA meetings on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on graduate students. Graduate students are invited to contact her if interested at martinm7@uw.edu

Recent Member Publications

Comparative Study of Territoriality across Forager Societies By: Mark Moritz, Shane Scaggs, Craig Shapiro, & Sarah Hinkelman

Inequality in the household and rural–urban migration in Ethiopian farmers By: Lucie Clech, James Holland Jones, & Mhairi Gibson

Beyond the group: how food, mates, and group size influence intergroup encounters in wild bonobos By: Stefano Lucchesi, Leveda Cheng, Karline Janmaat, Roger Mundry, Anne Pisor, Martin Surbeck

Cultural taxonomies in the Paleolithic—Old questions, novel perspectives By:Felix Riede ,Astolfo G.M. Araujo ,Michael C. Barton ,Knut, Andreas Bergsvik , Huw S. Groucutt , Shumon T. Hussain , Javier Fernandez‐Lopez de Pablo ,Andreas Maier ,Ben Marwick ,Lydia Pyne ,Kathryn Ranhorn ,Natasha Reynolds ,Julien Riel‐Salvatore,Florian Sauer ,Kamil Serwatka and Annabell Zander

WEIRD bodies: mismatch, medicine and missing diversity By: Michael Gurven and Daniel Lieberman

Environmental stress and human life history strategy development in rural and peri-urban South India By: George B. Richardson, Caitlyn Placek, Vijaya Srinvas, Poornima Jayakrishna, Robert Quinlan, Purnima Madhivanan.

To the hunter go the spoils? No evidence of nutritional benefit to being or marrying a well‐reputed Hadza hunter Duncan N. E. Stibbard‐Hawkes, Robert D. Attenborough, Ibrahim A. Mabulla, Frank W. Marlowe

Herding Friends in Similarity-Based Architecture of Social Networks By: Tamas David-Barrett

Mother’s social status is associated with child health in a horticulturalist population By:Sarah Alami, Christopher von Rueden, Edmond Seabright, Thomas S. Kraft, Aaron D. Blackwell, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan and Michael Gurven

Cultural and reproductive success and the causes of war: A Yanomamö perspective By: Raymond Hames

Why men invest in non-biological offspring: paternal care and paternity confidence among Himba pastoralists By: Sean P. Prall and Brooke A. Scelza

Hunter-gatherer multilevel sociality accelerates cumulative cultural evolution By: Andrea B. Migliano,Federico Battiston,Sylvain Viguier,Abigail E. Page,Mark Dyble,Rodolph Schlaepfer, Daniel Smith, Leonora Astete, Marilyn Ngales, Jesus Gomez-Gardenes,Vito Latora and Lucio Vinicius

High rate of extrapair paternity in a human population demonstrates diversity in human reproductive strategies By: B. A. Scelza, S. P. Prall, N. Swinford, S. Gopalan, E. G. Atkinson, R. McElreath, J. Sheehama, B. M. Henn

Other Publications

Expanding the evolutionary explanations for sex differences in the human skeleton By: Holly M. Dunsworth

Identity, Kindship, & the Evolution of Cooperation By: Burton Voorhees, Dwight Read, and Liane Gabora

Other Media and Resources

Doing fieldwork in a pandemic

Human Evolutionary Demography Volume (Open Access on OSF) Contributors: Rebecca Sear and Oskar Burger

Can’t I please just visit just one friend? By: Goodreau SM, Pollock ED, Birnbaum JK, Hamilton DT, Morris M, on behalf of the UW Network Modeling Group

New NSF Guidance on effects of COVID-19 on Human Subjects Research

R4DS Online Learning Community on Slack

Dr Jamie Jones was awarded an NSF grant to study the relationship between the contagion dynamics of COVID-19 and related behavioral responses.

Dr. Raymond Hames was elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Sausage of Science podcast with Dr. Aaron Blackwell: Unpacking the Black Boxes of Neurophysiology and Inheritance.

Melanie Martin, Dan Eisenberg, and Ellie Brindle along with colleagues at Washington State University, University of Idaho, and Tulane were awarded NSF Rapid to investigate SARS-CoV-2 infant transmission and immune responses related to breastfeeding.

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

2019-12-13T00:00:00+01:00

Report from the Presidents

Dear EAS Members,

We hope that you all enjoyed the AAA/CAA meeting in Vancouver as much as we did. We had another round of stimulating EAS sessions and an exciting business meeting (secret votes!) discussing the future of EAS (more on that below).

We’d like to start by announcing the winners of the EAS New Investigator and Student awards at the conference. Co-winners for the student award were Adam Reynolds (University of New Mexico) and Curtis Atkisson (UC Davis), and co-winners for the New Investigator prize were Katie Starkweather (University of New Mexico) and Melanie Martin (University of Washington). Congratulations!

Our new board is now in place with Karen Kramer beginning her role as President-Elect, Alyssa Crittenden and Jeremy Koster joining as members-at-large, and Adam Reynolds as the new student rep. We have also appointed Drew Gerkey to serve as Treasurer, taking over for Dawn Neill. Thanks to Dawn for her many years of service. Newsletter editors Melanie Martin and Katie Starkweather are also stepping down and we are looking for some interested parties to take over. This is a great chance for one or two senior graduate students or early-career people to take on a more active role in EAS. If you are interested or would like more information, please contact us.

Finally, the focus of our board and business meetings this year was once again on the future of EAS. Following a series of meetings that Mary and Brooke had with presidents and other representatives at AAPA, HBA, HBES and AAA, we presented a slate of options to the board for discussion. Upon careful consideration, the board proposed a hybrid model that would allow us to pilot a move to either AAPA (soon AABA) or HBA, while still maintaining our presence at AAA until a final decision is made. At the business meeting, straw polls were held that endorsed this hybrid model and pointed to AAPA as the primary organization to work with on piloting a move. We will now move forward with setting this plan into action, with more details forthcoming over the next year. Here are the first two things to keep on your radar, however: First, EAS will be meeting as usual at the AAA meetings in St. Louis in November 2020, so get ready to submit your abstracts and session proposals in March/April. Second, in an effort to kick off this new era in EAS’s history we will be hosting an informal event for current and potential future EAS members at the AAPA/HBA meetings in Los Angeles in April 2020, so stay tuned for details in upcoming newsletters.

Sincerely,

Brooke Scelza (President) Karen Kramer (President-Elect)

Recruitment

The psychology department at the University of New Mexico is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary anthropologists are welcome to apply.

Field course opportunity in Costa Rica with the association for Conservation of the tropics (DANTA).

The University of Alabama is accepting applications for an associate or full professor of medical or psychological anthropology.

Elspeth Ready is looking for a postdoc at the Max Plank Institute for a project looking to identify cultural factors that promote Inuit food security and well-being in Nunavik, Canada.

Looking for nominations or volunteers for 2 people to take over co-editing the EAS section of Anthropology News. Editors should be Ph.D. Candidates (ABD) or postdocs. The term is effective as of this year’s AAA meetings in Vancouver. Please contact Melanie Martin (martinm7@uw.edu) if you are interested or know someone who might be.

Recent Member Publications

Crucial Contributions: A Biocultural Study of Grandmothering During the Perinatal Period By: Brooke Scelza and Katie Hinde

Who teaches children to forage? Exploring the primacy of child-to-child teaching among Hadza and BaYaka Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania and Congo By: Sheina Lew-Levy, Adam Howell Boyette, and Alyssa Crittenden.

Niche diversity can explain cross-cultural differences in personality structure By: Paul E. Smaldino, Aaron Lukaszweski, Christopher von Rueden, and Michael Gurven

The formal demography of kinship: A matrix formulation model By: Hal Caswell

Old friends and friendly fire: Pregnancy, hookworm infection, and anemia among tropical horticulturalists By: Amy Anderson, Benjamin C. Trumble, Carmen Hové, Thomas S. Kraft, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven and Aaron D. Blackwell

Paternity confidence and social obligations explain men’s allocations to romantic partners in an experimental giving game By: Brooke Scelza, Sean Prall, and Kathrine Starkweather

Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology A Teaching Resource by Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges

Press Release on Gendered-Play in H-G Community By Sheina Lew-Levy and Adam Howell Boyette

Life & Career of Frank Marlowe By: Brian Wood, Michael Gurven, and Julia Marlowe

EAS at AAA 2019

2019-11-09T00:00:00+01:00

This year the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Convention will be held in the Vancouver Convention Center (google map). The full conference program is available here, and below are links to each individual EAS session, and to related sessions of interest.

EAS Sessions

Thursday, November 21st

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Leadership, status and social change in biosocial perspective - East, Room 11

Friday, November 22nd

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Two Decades In: Changing Climate of Evolutionary Anthropology Research in the New Millennium - West, Room 214

Saturday, November 23rd

8:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Human Health and Reproduction in a Globalizing World: Biocultural Adaptation to Social and Ecological Change - East, Room 7

12:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Evolutionary Anthropology Society (EAS) Business Meeting - West, Room 119

2:00 PM – 3:45 PM – Behavioral ecology of social ties and social structure I: Reputations, kinship and other multiplex relations - West, Room 208

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Behavioral ecology of social ties and social structure II: Exchange, institutions and risk management - West, Room 208

Other Sessions of Interest

Thursday, November 21

8:00 AM – 9:45 AM – The “Ethno” in Ethnoprimatology: Evolving Methods in an Evolving Field - West, Room 220 (BAS)

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – Growing up in times of stress: factors influencing the embodiment of struggle in childhood. - West, Room 101 & 102 (BAS)

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Geopolitical contexts (and conflicts) related to archaeological and bioanthropological knowledge production: the case of ancient DNA research from the North American region - West, Room 221 (BAS)

Friday, November 22

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – Biological Normalcy: Investigating relationships between statistical norms and normative views - West, Room 112 (BAS)

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Bio-cultural Explorations of Stress, Caregiving, and Malnutrition in North and South America - West, Room 112 (BAS)

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM – Biological Anthropology Section Distinguished Lecture and Awards Ceremony - Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel, Pacific Rim 1 (BAS)

Saturday, November 23

8:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Cultural Models, Cultural Knowledge, Consensus and Decisions - East, Room 11 (SAS)

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – Changing climates in the study of sex and gender: new insights on old theories - West, Room 306 (SAS)

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – The Legacy and Future of Cultural Consonance: William Dressler’s impact on cultural anthropology, theory, and methods - West, Room 214 (SAS)

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

2019-09-27T00:00:00+02:00

Report from the Presidents

Dear EAS Members,

Welcome back for fall 2019!

We’d like to start by announcing the winners of the EAS Election: Karen Kramer of the University of Utah is our incoming President Elect. Alyssa Crittenden of UNLV and Jeremy Koster of the University of Cincinnati are our incoming Executive Board Members. Drew Gerkey of Oregon State University is our incoming Treasurer. Adam Reynolds of the University of New Mexico is our incoming Student Representative. Congratulations to all of our incoming officers, and many thanks to those who were willing to run for office!

As you all know, in the coming year we have a big decision to make about the future home of EAS. We have been meeting with the leadership of other organizations, and in October we expect to circulate information on these discussions to the EAS membership. This topic will be the focus of the EAS business meeting at the annual AAA meetings in Vancouver prior to a vote of the membership later this year.

We’re all looking forward to a great schedule of talks at the AAA meetings in Vancouver this October. The complete EAS schedule—along with a few relevant sessions sponsored by other sections—is listed below. We look forward to seeing many of you in Vancouver!

EAS Sessions

Thursday, November 21st

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Leadership, status and social change in biosocial perspective - East, Room 11

Friday, November 22nd

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Two Decades In: Changing Climate of Evolutionary Anthropology Research in the New Millennium - West, Room 214

Saturday, November 23rd

8:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Human Health and Reproduction in a Globalizing World: Biocultural Adaptation to Social and Ecological Change - East, Room 7

12:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Evolutionary Anthropology Society (EAS) Business Meeting - West, Room 119

2:00 PM – 3:45 PM – Behavioral ecology of social ties and social structure I: Reputations, kinship and other multiplex relations - West, Room 208

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Behavioral ecology of social ties and social structure II: Exchange, institutions and risk management - West, Room 208

Other Sessions of Interest

Thursday, November 21

8:00 AM – 9:45 AM – The “Ethno” in Ethnoprimatology: Evolving Methods in an Evolving Field - West, Room 220 (BAS)

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – Growing up in times of stress: factors influencing the embodiment of struggle in childhood. - West, Room 101 & 102 (BAS)

Friday, November 22

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – Biological Normalcy: Investigating relationships between statistical norms and normative views - West, Room 112 (BAS)

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Bio-cultural Explorations of Stress, Caregiving, and Malnutrition in North and South America - West, Room 112 (BAS)

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM – Biological Anthropology Section Distinguished Lecture and Awards Ceremony - Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel, Pacific Rim 1 (BAS)

Saturday, November 23

8:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Cultural Models, Cultural Knowledge, Consensus and Decisions - East, Room 11 (SAS)

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – Changing climates in the study of sex and gender: new insights on old theories - West, Room 306 (SAS)

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – The Legacy and Future of Cultural Consonance: William Dressler’s impact on cultural anthropology, theory, and methods - West, Room 214 (SAS)

Best wishes,

Mary Shenk, EAS President

Brooke Scelza, EAS President Elect

Recruitment

The Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary Analysis is recruiting PhD students: Multiple funded PhD positions for incoming graduate students in Experimental Psychology at Oklahoma State University.

A group of graduate students from WSU and Emory are brainstorming a late-breaking roundtable submission for the 2019 AAAs on the topic of reproductive rights as human rights with a focus on abortion in light of recent anti-abortion legislation passed in 6 U.S. states. They are looking for 1-2 other biocultural/evolutionary/medical anthropologists to participate. Discussion points will include evolutionary and biocultural perspectives on reproductive rights and the role of anthropology in activism. Please email klsyme@gmail.com if you’re interested in participating.

Emory University’s Department of Anthropology is hiring three biological anthropologists. More information can be found here.

The Culture, Behavior, Evolution and Development Lab (CuBED) in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University is looking to recruit MA/PhD students. The position includes a SSHRC IDG grant-funded stipend of $12,000 for an MA student, or $15,000 for a PhD student already holding an MA degree, for two years. Funding requires the student to work on the SSHRD IDG-funded project. The student is expected to apply for additional fellowship funding to cover their fees, and/or work as a TA for additional funding through the completion of their degree.The graduate student will be based in the Department of Psychology and will be supervised by Dr. Michelle Kline. Please contact Dr. Kline (makline@sfu.ca) directly for interest in applying. Applicants must apply to the departmental program (Portal open: October 15 – December 1, 2019) in addition to discussing their application with Dr. Kline. Applicants should apply in Fall 2019 to begin the position in Fall 2020. Indigenous students and students from any historically underrepresented group are particularly encouraged to apply.

Recent Member Publications

Effects of Extreme Ritual Practice on Psychophysiological Well-Being By: Dimitris Xygalatas, Sammyh Khan, Martin Lang, Radek Kundt, Eva Kundtová-Klocová, Jan Krátký, and John Shaver

The Pregnancy Pickle: Evolved Immune Compensation Due to Pregnancy Underlies Sex Differences in Human Diseases By: Heini Natri, Angela R. Garcia, Kenneth H. Buetow, Benjamin C. Trumble, Melissa A. Wilson

Hybridization in human evolution: Insights from other organisms By: Ackermann et. al.

Pride and shame: Key components of a culturally universal status management By: Patrick K. Durkee, Aaron W. Lukaszewski, and David M. Buss

Gender-typed and gender-segregated play among Tanzanian Hadza and Congolese BaYaka hunter-gatherer children and adolescents By: Sheina Lew-Levy, Adam H. Boyette, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Barry S. Hewlett, Michael c

One piece of the matrilineal puzzle: the socioecology of maternal uncle investment By: Kathrine Starkweather and Monica Keith

The evolution of female-biased kinship in humans and other mammals By: Siobhán M. Mattison, Mary K. Shenk, Melissa Emery Thompson, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and Laura Fortunato

Patterns of paternal investment predict cross-cultural variation in jealous response By: Brooke A. Scelza, Sean P. Prall, Tami Blumenfield, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Michael Gurven, Michelle Kline, Jeremy Koster, Geoff Kushnick, Siobhán M. Mattison, Elizabeth Pillsworth, Mary K. Shenk, Kathrine Starkweather, Jonathan Stieglitz, Chun-Yi Sum, Kyoko Yamaguchi & Richard McElreath

Development of social learning and play in BaYaka hunter-gatherers of Congo By: Gul Deniz Salali, Nikhil Chaudhary, Jairo Bouer, James Thompson, Lucio Vinicius & Andrea Bamberg Migliano

The expendable male hypothesis Opinion Piece by: Siobhán M. Mattison , Robert J. Quinlan and Darragh Hare

The dynamics of men’s cooperation and social status in a small-scale society By: Christopher R. von Rueden , Daniel Redhead , Rick O’Gorman , Hillard Kaplan and Michael Gurven

The evolution of intergroup tolerance in nonhuman primates and humans By: Anne Pisor and Martin Surbeck

Testing adaptive hypotheses of alloparenting in Agta foragers By: Abigail E. Page, Matthew G. Thomas, Daniel Smith, Mark Dyble, Sylvain Viguier, Nikhil Chaudhary, Gul Deniz Salali, James Thompson, Ruth Mace & Andrea B. Migliano

Periodic catastrophes over human evolutionary history are necessary to explain the forager population paradox By: Michael D. Gurven and Raziel J. Davison

Kinship ties across the lifespan in human communities By: Jeremy Koster, Dieter Lukas, David Nolin, Eleanor Power, Alexandra Alvergne, Ruth Mace, Cody T. Ross, Karen Kramer, Russell Greaves, Mark Caudell, Shane MacFarlan, Eric Schniter, Robert Quinlan, Siobhan Mattison, Adam Reynolds, Chun Yi-Sum and Eric Massengill

Cooperation beyond consanguinity: post-marital residence, delineations of kin and social support among South Indian Tamils By: Eleanor A. Power and Elspeth Read

The disequilibrium of double descent: changinghttps://evanthsoc.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b66d0effc60d7e0f8e9508bd8&id=bba5d5b054&e=873ff7a1dd inheritance norms among Himba pastoralists By: Brooke A. Scelza, Sean P. Prall and Nancy E. Levine

How can non-human primates inform evolutionary perspectives on female-biased kinship in humans? By: Melissa Emery Thompson

When does matriliny fail? The frequencies and causes of transitions to and from matriliny estimated from a de novo coding of a cross-cultural sample By: Mary K. Shenk, Ryan O. Begley, David A. Nolin and Andrew Swiatek

Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth By: Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Mary C. Towner, Ryan Baldini, Bret A. Beheim, Samuel Bowles, Heidi Colleran, Michael Gurven, Karen L. Kramer, Siobhán M. Mattison, David A. Nolin, Brooke A. Scelza, Eric Schniter, Rebecca Sear, Mary K. Shenk, Eckart Voland and John Ziker

The evolution of infanticide by females in mammals By:Dieter Lukas and Elise Huchard

From matrimonial practices to genetic diversity in Southeast Asian populations: the signature of the matrilineal puzzle By: Goki Ly, Romain Laurent, Sophie Lafosse, Chou Monidarin, Gérard Diffloth, Frédéric Bourdier, Olivier Evrard, Bruno Toupance, Samuel Pavard and Raphaëlle Chaix

Other Media

Racism in science: the taint that lingers By: Robin Nelson

AnthroNews is making a Gossip Issue: they call for creative writing for their January/February Issue that is broadly defined as the topic of gossip from evolutionary perspectives on social grooming to linguistic tales. Deadline Oct. 31 2019, more information here.

Bioanth specific resources for addressing broader impacts in NSF here.

Coming Back From The Field Sausage of Science Episode with Agustin Fuentes

A Moonshot for Extraterrestrial Communication By: Luke J. Matthews

Grandmothers and Public Health By: Evolutionary Demography Group

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

2019-05-25T00:00:00+02:00

Report from the Presidents

Dear EAS Members,

As the semester winds down, we celebrate another exciting year at EAS, including a terrific conference in San Jose. In the coming year we will have a lot of big decisions to make—including important debates about the future home of EAS. We have begun meeting with the leadership at other organizations and will continue with those into the summer. Please be sure to join us in Vancouver to be part of the next round of these discussions.

We would also like to remind everyone to vote in the EAS elections, which are being held as part of the AAA elections now through May 31, 2019. Here is the 2019 EAS slate—more details and candidate statements can be found on the AAA website.

President-Elect (2 year term, followed by 2 years as President and 2 years as Past President) Vote for one. Drew Gerkey, Oregon State University Karen Kramer, University of Utah

Executive Board Member (4 year term) Vote for two. Alyssa Crittenden, University of Nevada Las Vegas Jeremy Koster, University of Cincinnati David Lawson, University of California Santa Barbara Eleanor Power, The London School of Economics and Political Science

Student Representative (2 year term) Vote for one. Adam Reynolds, University of New Mexico Erik Ringen, Emory University

That’s all of now—we’ll be back in August to update you on the upcoming meetings in Vancouver in November!

Best wishes, Mary Shenk, EAS President Brooke Scelza, EAS President Elect

Upcoming Events

Inaugural meeting of FOSSIL (FlyOver State Scientists Integrating evoLution) will take place on August 2-3, 2019, in Stillwater, OK (Oklahoma State University). Registration will open on 4/1 and is free for students and postdocs! More information, including about abstract submission, can be found here. FOSSIL is a NEW regional conference for those looking to connect with other evolutionary-minded researchers across disciplinary boundaries.. Please feel free to contact Jaimie Krems (jaimie.krems@okstate.edu), Jennifer Byrd-Craven (jennifer.byrd.craven@okstate.edu), or Ashley M. Rankin (ashley.rankin@okstate.edu) with questions. Link to register: http://fossilconference.strikingly.com/?fbclid=IwAR1BnhEUsM-EKuNTlFMH0nAyfkyeL9YePOR08DYbjL4EY-j6W5okz7ERtc8

Recent Member Publications

The evolution of daily food sharing: A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis By: Erik J. Ringen, Pavel Duda, and Adrian V. Jaeggi

Network Effects of Demographic Transition By: Tamas David-Barrett

Migration, integration, and reproduction By: Mary C. Towner

Evolutionary and Biocultural Causes and Consequences of Rising Cesarean Birth Rates Edited by: Karen Rosenberg and Amanda Veile *Freely available for another month or so

American Anthropologist Special Issue on Diversity in BioAnth Some contributors include Robin Nelson and Augustin Fuentes

Costly signaling and the handicap principle in hunter-gatherer research: A critical review By: Duncan N.E. Stibbord-Hawkes

Parent-offspring conflict unlikely to explain ‘child marriage’ in Northwestern Tanzania By: Susan B. Schaffnit, Anushe Hassan, Mark Urassa, and David. W. Lawson

“Child marriage” in context: exploring local attitudes towards early marriage in rural Tanzania By: Susan B. Schaffnit, Mark Urassa, and David. W. Lawson Other Media Luke Matthews is writing a series of posts with notes on statistical implementations that accompany the Manual for Cultural Analysis he published last year. Link to published posts here: https://lmatthewsevoanth.weebly.com/blog https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TL275.html

Useful teaching resource on Decanonizing/Decolonizing Anthropology (and your syllabus). Particularly relevant to evolutionary minded researchers teaching History/Theory of Anthropology and who want to incorporate history of Anthropology into their classes. This resource is easy to use and highlights relevant individuals in the formation of Anthropology and gives them deserved recognition which is relevant to all fields of Anthropology: https://footnotesblog.com/2019/02/15/decanonizing-anthropology/?fbclid=IwAR2ar9oBkcc3LkdB0K8LvCUMSN5Ksz2KdOzqXkL_j1woGmX6v3aryzKmnjY

Black Feminist Science By: Aja Marie Lans

New Directions in Biological Anthropology By: Robin Nelson *SOS Episode

Of Environment and Genes: How to Address Bones’ Morphological Variability AnthroNews Review by: Diane Martin-Moya

Evolutionary Anthropology Society

Evolutionary Anthropology Society Newsletter

Report from the Presidents

AAA Baltimore 2021 EAS Related Sessions & Meetings

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 (pre-conference activity)

Thursday, November 18, 2021

(2-1543) Children Foraging in a Changing World

(2-1590) Art, Science, or Politics? The Crisis in Hunter-Gatherer Studies, 30 years Later

(2-1380) Evolutionary Perspectives on Health and Reproduction

(2-1220) Living in Groups, Truth and Responsibility: The Ecology of Cooperation and Conflicts in Families, Communities and Societies

Friday, November 19, 2021

(3-1992) Researcher responsibilities and responses during the COVID-19 pandemic

(3-2260) Experimental Approaches to Truth and Responsibility

(3-2300) Engaging Pedagogy, Publics, and Perception in Biological Anthropology

(3-2385) Credit vs Market on the Northwest Coast (Another Anomaly?)

(3-2462) Behavioral Ecology of Post-Marital Residence Among Sena Horticulturalists in Mozambique

(3-2332) Effects of family demographics and household economics on Sidama children’s nutritional status

(3-2464) BAS Distinguished Lecture, Awards, and Reception

Saturday, November 20, 2021

(4-3294) Bringing Truth to a Post-Truth World: how anthropologists engage and assess their science communication

(0-1040) Fat Talk: How anthropologists approach the topics of obesity, fat bias, and body image in different cultural and health contexts.

Events and Announcements

Recent Member Publications

Evolutionary Anthropology Society Newsletter

Report from the Presidents

Events and Announcements

Recent Member Publications

2020-2021 Awards Competition Call for Papers

Evolutionary Anthropology Society Newsletter

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Recruitment

Recent Member Publications

Other Media

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

Report from the Presidents

Events

Recruitment

Recent Member Publications

Other Media

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

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Recruitment

Recent Member Publications

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Other Media and Resources

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

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EAS at AAA 2019

EAS Sessions

Thursday, November 21st

Friday, November 22nd

Saturday, November 23rd

Other Sessions of Interest

Thursday, November 21

Friday, November 22

Saturday, November 23

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

Report from the Presidents

EAS Sessions

Thursday, November 21st

Friday, November 22nd

Saturday, November 23rd

Other Sessions of Interest

Thursday, November 21

Friday, November 22

Saturday, November 23

Best wishes,

Recruitment

Recent Member Publications

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