I’ll be tweeting from the Evolutionary Psychology Interdisciplinary Conference #EPIC2018 hosted by @TKShackelford at @oaklandu
The theme is “Death”
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Carrying dead infants more common in primates more closely related to us #EPIC2018pic.twitter.com/6vH1XnA2Dx
Brosnan’s conclusions on primate responses to death and her (non-mutually exclusive) explainations for why the carrying behavior occurs #EPIC2018pic.twitter.com/AoHJICBDhJ
“All individual lives, and all life’s stories, end in death” Carroll discusses the wide ranging ways in which death is present in literaturepic.twitter.com/Z9KjdQihvc
Eileen Hebets discussing sexual cannibalism in spiders #EPIC2018
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Fun fact: there are 11 orders of Arachnids — spiders are just one! #EPIC2018pic.twitter.com/IkiQrDo31a
In this species of fishing spiders, all males die after copulation 100% of the time; all females eat the male 100% of the time; and this cannibalism is adaptive for offspring outcomes, such as mass.pic.twitter.com/9C3KWneu48
Randy Thornhill opening the afternoon session discussing his work on how parasites influence our psychology #EPIC2018pic.twitter.com/fbFpuAmN2k
Parasite stress theory predicts the values groups may adopt. Low parasite stress associated with liberalism #EPIC2018pic.twitter.com/oFx186dRFv
Jeanette Altarriba asks, “Is there a survival function to human memory?” She suggests yes. Evidence that free recall is enhanced if words are encoded in a survival threat context #EPIC2018pic.twitter.com/A60QNkwJcg
Nicholas Humphrey says altruistic suicide could be adaptive (eg. benefits fo kin), but egoist suicide may be a ‘biological mistake’ motivated by a general desire to escape pain #EPIC2018pic.twitter.com/HBMZMlxBW5
Katie Zejdlik, an anthropologist, speaks of her work at Western Carolina University human decomposition facility (!!) #EPIC2018pic.twitter.com/j1P2q2lw4q
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