Adaptation, Maladaptation, and Natural Selection

Richard Lenski, Michigan State University
Chance and Necessity in Adaptive Evolution: A 20,000-Generation Experiment With E. Coli 
Tuesday, January 11, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

Martin Daly & Margo Wilson, McMaster University
Adaptationist Ideas About Homicidal Violence
Tuesday, January 18, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

George Williams, SUNY at Stonybrook
The Adaptation Concept: Definitions, Explanations, Practical Uses
Tuesday, January 25, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

John Holland, University of Michigan
Genetic Algorithms, Building Blocks, and Emergence
Tuesday, February 1, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

Gerd Gigerenzer, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development 
Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox
Tuesday, February 7, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

Alexandra Basolo, University of Nebraska
Pre-existing Receiver Biases and Their Evolutionary Consequences
Tuesday, February 8, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

Steven Stearns, University of Basel
How Can One Tell if a Life History Trait is an Adaptation? 
Tuesday, February 15, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

Steven Frank, University of California, Irvine
Adaptations For Attack and Defense
Tuesday, February 22, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

David Haig, Harvard University
The Divided Self
Tuesday, February 29, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

Bobbi Low, University of Michigan
Optimum Age at First Birth in Humans: Multiple Environments,  Multiple Currencies 
Tuesday, March 7, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

Jared Diamond, University of California, Los Angeles
Why Did Human History Unfold Differently on Different Continents For The Last 13,000 Years?
Friday, March 10, 3:30 P.M.  Rackham Auditorium
Co-sponsored by the Culture and Cognition Program

Marc Hauser, Harvard University
Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
Tuesday, March 14, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

Laurence Hurst, University of Bath
The Genetic Code: Accident or Adaptation? 
Tuesday, March 21, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

Randy Thornhill, University of New Mexico
The Concept of an Evolved Adaptation
Tuesday, March 28, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

Steve Easter, University of Michigan
A Functional Consideration of Eyes and Their Evolution
Tuesday, April 4, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall

Arnold Kluge, University of Michigan
Exposing Historicism in the Comparative Method
Tuesday, April 11, 4:00 P.M.  4448 East Hall