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2020

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

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…

2019

EAS at AAA 2019

a list of EAS sessions, roundtables, meetings, and social events at AAA 2019 in Vancouver, British Columbia as well as other sessions of possible interest

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

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 ...

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

Thanks to everyone who attended the very successful 2018 AAA meetings. EAS sponsored 7 sessions, which were well-attended and showcased some great science!

2018

EAS at AAA 2018

a list of EAS sessions, roundtables, meetings, and social events at AAA 2018 in San Jose, California as well as other sessions of possible interest

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

We hope you’re enjoying the end of the school year and the start of summer. We’ve been hard at work getting ready for this fall’s AAA meetings in San Jose…

Winter 2018 Newsletter

Happy 2018! For those of you not able to make the 2017 meetings in Washington, DC, we had a great series of sessions…

2017

EAS at AAA 2017

a list of EAS sessions, roundtables, meetings, and social events at AAA 2017 in Washington, DC, as well as other sessions of possible interest

EAS Quarterly Newsletter

The school year is winding down, but the field season is just beginning. Here are a few updates and announcements to get you up to date with what’s happening...

2016

2016 EAS Paper Presentation Awards

The EAS gives out two awards per year, based on presentations at the AAA meetings. The awards are for best paper by a new investigator and best paper by a st...

Reproducible Research As Our New Default

The last decade has been a sobering one for science, marked by increasingly frank conversations about ‘the idea that something has gone fundamentally wrong w...

2015

2015 EAS Paper Presentation Awards

The EAS gives out two awards per year, based on presentations at the AAA meetings. The awards are for best paper by a new investigator and best paper by a st...

EAS at the 2015 AAA Meetings

Following the departure of co­editors Siobhan Mattison and Adam Boyette, we (Katie Starkweather and Melanie Martin) will be picking up the reigns and serving...

2014

2014 EAS Paper Presentation Awards

The EAS gives out two awards per year, based on presentations at the AAA meetings. The awards are for best paper by a new investigator and best paper by a st...

EAS Sessions at AAA 2014

EAS is happy to have been granted what may be an unprecedented number of EAS sessions at the upcoming American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in ...

Evolution and Violence

Napoleon Chagnon and Keith Otterbein shared the stage at the University of Wisconsin on Thursday evening, October 24, 2013. The occasion was to present their...

2013

2013 EAS Paper Presentation Awards

The EAS gives out two awards per year, based on presentations at the AAA meetings. The awards are for best paper by a new investigator and best paper by a st...

2012

Human Behavioral Ecology and the City

When I began to pursue anthropology seriously as an undergraduate, I envisioned myself doing fieldwork. At that time, I pictured a remote village with elders...

2012 EAS Paper Presentation Awards

The EAS gives out two awards per year, based on presentations at the AAA meetings. The awards are for best paper by a new investigator and best paper by a st...

Keeping up with the literature, part 2

In my last installment, I discussed how to keep track of published manuscripts of interest. While RSS feeds and TOCs are great ways to learn about new articl...

EAS Sessions at AAA 2012

The 2012 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association will be held November 14-18, 2012 in San Francisco, CA. The conference theme is “Borders ...

EAS Welcomes New Board Members

The Evolutionary Anthropology Society (EAS) has held its annual elections, welcomes new members and thanks candidates who stood for office. The Board now inc...

Keeping up with the literature, part 1

One of my goals as contributing editor is to use the EAS monthly column to provide a series of primers on practical topics of general interest to evolutionar...

2011 Annual Report

2011 was our sixth year as a regular section of the AAA. At the annual meeting in Montréal, we sponsored one poster and two paper sessions. We held board and...

2011

2011 EAS Paper Presentation Awards

The EAS gives out two awards per year, based on presentations at the AAA meetings. The awards are for best paper by a new investigator and best paper by a st...

2010

2010 EAS Paper Presentation Awards

The EAS gives out two awards per year, based on presentations at the AAA meetings. The awards are for best paper by a new investigator and best paper by a st...

2009

2009 EAS Paper Presentation Awards

The EAS gives out two awards per year, based on presentations at the AAA meetings. The awards are for best paper by a new investigator and best paper by a st...

2008

2008 EAS Paper Presentation Awards

The EAS gives out two awards per year, based on presentations at the AAA meetings. The awards are for best paper by a new investigator and best paper by a st...

2007

2007 EAS Paper Presentation Awards

The EAS gives out two awards per year, based on presentations at the AAA meetings. The awards are for best paper by a new investigator and best paper by a st...

2006

2006 EAS Paper Presentation Awards

The EAS gives out two awards per year, based on presentations at the AAA meetings. The awards are for best paper by a new investigator and best paper by a st...

2005

2005 EAS Paper Presentation Awards

The EAS gives out two awards per year, based on presentations at the AAA meetings. The awards are for best paper by a new investigator and best paper by a st...