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NIMBioS Event Calendar
Due to the evolving coronavirus situation, NIMBioS activities through February 28 are expected to be virtual, with limited exceptions. Read more ».
February 2021
Feb 2 12:15 p.m.	Dysoc/NIMBioS Webinar on Human Origins and Cultural Evolution. Joe Henrich (Harvard Univ.) *The Secret of Our Success*
Feb 9 11:45 a.m.	Dysoc/NIMBioS Webinar on Human Origins and Cultural Evolution. Marta Lahr (Univ. of Cambridge, UK) An extended origin: Climate, populations and palimpsests in the evolution of Homo sapiens
Feb 16 11:45 a.m.	Dysoc/NIMBioS Webinar on Human Origins and Cultural Evolution. Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) *The genetic history of the plague: What we learn from ancient pandemics*
Feb 19 1-5 p.m.	NIMBioS Research Reunion: A NIMBioS Interactive event for all NIMBioS participants and others who are interested to join us.
Feb 23 11:45 a.m.	Dysoc/NIMBioS Webinar on Human Origins and Cultural Evolution. Chris Stringer (Natural History Museum, London) *What is Homo sapiens?*
March 2021
Mar 2 11:45 a.m.	Dysoc Webinar on Human Origins and Cultural Evolution. Polly Wiessner (Arizona State Univ.) *The Embers of Society: Firelight Talk among the Ju/'hoansi Bushmen*
Mar 9 12:15 p.m.	Dysoc Webinar on Human Origins and Cultural Evolution. Michael Muthukrishna (London School of Economics) *Cultural Brain Hypothesis, Collective Brains, and the Evolution of Intelligence*
Mar 16 11:45 a.m.	Dysoc Webinar on Human Origins and Cultural Evolution. Louise Barrett (Univ. of Lethbridge, Alberta) *Thinking Outside the Head: Cognitive Ecologies and Evolutionary Psychology*
Mar 23 11:45 a.m.	Dysoc Webinar on Human Origins and Cultural Evolution. Sarah Mathew (Arizona State Univ.) *War and Peace: The Cultural Evolution of Large-scale Conflict and Cooperation*
Mar 30 11:45 a.m.	Dysoc Webinar on Human Origins and Cultural Evolution. Fiona Jordan (Univ. of Bristol, UK) *'A subject too large and complex' for Darwin: The Cultural Evolution of Kinship Terminology*
April 2021
Apr 6 11:45 a.m.	Dysoc Webinar on Human Origins and Cultural Evolution. Manvir Singh (Institute for Advanced Studies, Toulouse) *Human Social Organization during the Late Pleistocene: Challenging the Nomadic-egalitarian Model*
Apr 13 11:45 a.m.	Dysoc Webinar on Human Origins and Cultural Evolution. Thomas Currie (Biosciences, Univ. of Exeter, UK) *The Descent of Rules: Investigating the Cultural Evolution and Ecology of Institutions*
Apr 20 11:15 a.m.	Dysoc Webinar on Human Origins and Cultural Evolution. Maria Lapinski (Michigan State Univ.) *Communicating Cultural and Social Norms*

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.