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Charles Darwin Week

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his most important work, On the Origin of Species. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research have joined together to celebrate both events.

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Thursday, September 17

Evolutionary Basis of Human Behaviour

NWO Conference, Amsterdam, Royal Tropical Institute

Vanaf 09.30  

Welcome with coffee

10.15 – 10.30

Opening
John Michon

 

Plenary session 1: Life History
chair: Kate Lessells

10.30 – 11.20

Ruth Mace (London, UK)

Evolution of human life history

11.20 - 12.10

Rudi Westendorp (Leiden, NL)

Evolution of ageing

 

 

 

NWO session Results from the programme E&B

12.10 - 13.30

Lunch and Posters

13.30 - 15.30

Parallel sessions research projects of the E&B programme

 

 

15.30 – 16.00

Tea break

 

Plenary session 2: Sex and reproduction
chair: Bram Buunk

16.00 – 16.50

Martie Haselton (Los Angeles, USA)

The Evolution of Women's Sexuality: Long-term Bonds and Extra-Pair Sex

16.50 - 17.40

 

Karl Grammer (Vienna, Austria)

Pheromones in reproductive behaviour

 

 

17.45

Drinks
(From 18.45 there is an invitational buffet for the speakers of the conference and the involved researchers and committee members of the E&B programme)

  

 

Charles Darwin commemorative lecture
chair: Carel van Schaik

20.00 – 21.00

Robin Dunbar (Oxford, UK)

Charles Darwin and the evolution of man