Evolutionary Anthropology Society Newsletter
Happy Fall! With the changing seasons this year comes some big changes for the Evolutionary Anthropology Society.
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2021
Evolutionary Anthropology Society Newsletter
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) p...
2020-2021 Awards Competition Call for Papers
The Evolutionary Anthropology Society is soliciting submissions for their annual awards for Best Student and Best New Investigator.
2020
Evolutionary Anthropology Society Newsletter
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…
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…
EAS Quarterly Newsletter
We hope that you are all managing to find some peace and balance in these challenging times…
2019
EAS Quarterly Newsletter
We hope that you all enjoyed the AAA/CAA meeting in Vancouver as much as we did….
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
We’d like to start by announcing the winners of the EAS Election…
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…
March 2018 Section News
upcoming opportunities to publish in Anthro News and call for abstracts for AAA 2018
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…
Announcements and Call for Abstracts
award winners from our annual meeting in 2017 and call for 2018 abstracts
2017
Evolutionary Anthropology Graduate Programs IV
the fourth in a series highlighting US graduate programs in evolutionary anthropology
Evolutionary Anthropology Graduate Programs III
the third in a series highlighting US graduate programs in evolutionary anthropology
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
Launching the Cultural Evolution Society
The Inaugural Meeting of the Cultural Evolution Society was held in Jena, Germany, September 13–15, 2017.
Evolutionary Anthropology Graduate Programs II
the second in a series highlighting US graduate programs in evolutionary anthropology
Busting Myths about Evolutionary Anthropology
Quarrels over human sociobiology in the 1970s and 1980s introduced several myths into anthropology. Although the heat has gone out of that controversy, these...
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...
Evolutionary Anthropology Graduate Programs
This is the first in a series of posts that highlight current evolutionary anthropology graduate programs
2016
EAS at the 2016 AAA meetings in Minneapolis
Session recaps, Investigator Awards, and Society Announcements
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...
EAS at AAA 2016
Hi Evolutionary Anthropology Society (EAS) members!
Evolutionary Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion
Historically, evolutionary anthropologists have allocated the majority of our attention to topics like subsistence strategies, parental investment, warfare, ...
An Evolutionary Anthropology Master Syllabus
With the Fall Quarter/Semester fast approaching, many of us are scrambling to organize course syllabi. Whatever the specific course you teach, the required r...
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...
A Game-Changer in the Study of Human Origins
In 2013, two recreational cavers exploring a deep recess of the Rising Star cave in South Africa stumbled across a massive collection of (what appeared to be...
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 in Minneapolis
2015 was a great year for the Evolutionary Anthropology Society. We elected a new PresidentElect—Mary Shenk—as well as two new Board members— Rebecca Sear a...
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...
AAA 2013 Coming Up, Three New EAS Board Members To Take Office
In August, the EAS held a special election to fill three positions: two board members at-large and president-elect. I am pleased to announce that Peter Riche...
Marcus Feldman Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Among the 84 scholars elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year was evolutionary biologist Marcus Feldman. Feldman has built a luminous legacy in...
EAS Sessions at AAA 2013
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Human Cooperation at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
Human cooperation is a broad and diverse phenomenon, and the kinds of scholars who study it are similarly diverse. Within this diversity, most scholars fall ...
EAS and Interdisciplinary Collaborations
The Culture and the Mind Project
What Evolutionary Anthropologists Can Do for Public Health, and How You Can Get Involved
Integrating biocultural and evolutionary insights into public health practice can produce more effective interventions. Doubt me? Scholars working within evo...
EAS at AAA 2012
A Brief Review of Invited Sessions and Membership Business
Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Auckland
North American students may wish to consider venturing to the Antipodes to pursue a PhD in evolutionary anthropology. There are many outstanding universities...
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...
Napoleon Chagnon Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor Napoleon Chagnon, renowned for his pioneering work exploring the evolutionary foundations of sociality and reproductive c...
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...
Evolutionary Approaches to Kinship and Family
Anthropology has a long and varied history of engaging the topic of kinship. Well underway by the time the first academic department in anthropology was esta...
The rising influence of `Human Nature’ and renewed interest in middle childhood
Members of the Evolutionary Anthropology Society regularly read and contribute to the journal, Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective (HN)....
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...