The Department of Anthropology will present the fourth annual Northwest Evolution, Ecology, and Human Behavior Symposium April 22-24 at the downtown Boise State location at Capitol Boulevard and Front Street. The symposium highlights the department’s research focus and brings leaders in ecology, evolution and behavioral research from the region and beyond to Boise.
The conference was organized by Boise State faculty Kathryn Demps, Kristin Snopkowski, Pie-Lin Yu and John Ziker, as well as Caleb Thom, president of the Boise State Anthropology Club, and Phil Dailey, director of the Boise State Archaeological Students Association.
This year’s event will feature a special session on “Households and the Evolutionary Process,” with speakers from across the country. Plenary speakers for the conference are:
- Hillard Kaplan (University of New Mexico), “Advances and new directions in research on the natural history of human aging”
- Leslie Knapp (University of Utah), “The ABC’s of MHC: What are major histocompatibility complex genes and why are they relevant in the study of ecology, evolution and behaviour?”
- Courtney Meehan (Washington State University), “The social world of the mother-infant dyad: Child development, behavior, and health in human cooperative breeding systems”
- Chris Morgan (University of Nevada, Reno), “High altitude settlement as evolutionary process”
Participating institutions include Arizona State University, Bureau of Land Management, Canyon County Parks, City of Albuquerque, College of Western Idaho, US Department of Agriculture, SUNY – Albany, University of Michigan, University of Montana, University of Nevada at Reno, University 2016 of New Mexico, University of Utah and Washington State University.
BY: KATHLEEN TUCK PUBLISHED 4:08 PM / APRIL 15, 2016