Adaptation, Behavior, Culture and Society Research Group
Welcome to the Adaptation, Behavior, Culture and Society research group at Arizona State University.
ABC&S brings together scholars from across the social sciences and biological sciences who share an interest in using evolutionary tools, theories and insights to better understand how and why people behave as we do.
Upcoming Speakers
The Evolution of Social Complexity speaker events are held on Wednesday from 12 to 1:15 p.m. in WCPH 209 (unless otherwise noted). View a map and directions.
Refreshments and light snacks are served.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Jan. 29 | Christopher Krupenye, Johns Hopkins University | The social minds of humans and other apes |
| Feb. 19 | Sean Prall, UCLA | The messengers matter: Understanding health-care decision making in the Kunene |
| March 19 | Tom Kraft, University of Utah | The effects of rapid lifestyle transition on health and aging: Recent insights from the Orang Asli Health and Lifeways Project |
| March 26 | Jeremy Koster, National Science Foundation | Reputations to rewards: Testing the indirect reciprocity model in a sedentary community |
| April 2 | Rachna Reddy, University of Utah | Evolution of a vulnerable adolescence: Insights from chimpanzees and bonobos |
| April 9 | Elizabeth Arkush, University of Pittsburgh | Gender, violent conflict, and sociopolitical change in the pre-Columbian Andes |