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