{"id":19004,"date":"2014-02-28T11:49:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T17:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=19004"},"modified":"2014-02-28T11:49:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T17:49:14","slug":"talk-on-evolutionary-psychology-sunday-march-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/28\/talk-on-evolutionary-psychology-sunday-march-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk on Evolutionary Psychology, Sunday, March 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will be giving a talk in Saint Paul, at the Best Western Kelly Inn, on Evolutionary Psychology.<\/p>\n

The original plan was to get two people to debate the topic, but it was hard to find two people in town to do that. One idea was to get PZ Myers over here, and then he and I would debate the topic. Problem with that is that we probably agree a lot more than we disagree so that would be boring. Well, I’m sure we’d make it interesting but we’d have to switch topics.<\/p>\n

So it ended up being me. There will be a debate. I’ll handle both sides. Seriously.<\/p>\n

I’d love to give you a working link to meetup.com for this event, but meetup.com appears to be undergoing a massive, extended DDoS attack. From some very lonely person, I assume. Here’s the link in case it works. <\/a><\/p>\n

Anyway, this talk is sponsored by the Critical Thinking Club of Saint Paul. Details:
\nSunday, March 2, 2014
\n10:00 AM
\nBest Western Kelly Inn
\n161 Saint Anthony Ave
\nSaint Paul, MN 55103<\/p>\n

\nEvolutionary Psychology is a late 20th century scientific discipline created for the explicit purpose of understanding how the brain works (mechanisms) and why the brain works that way (adaptations). It assumes the adaptations we observe in the brain are to the environment in which they arose. Unfortunately, this new discipline was created in human brains (as opposed to some other really smart species) and human brains did not evolve in an environment in which understanding the workings of brains was important. Rather, human brains evolved in an environment in which outsmarting other people may have been more important than getting things right. In this talk, we will see what is right, and perhaps not right, about evolutionary psychology.<\/p>\n

Greg Laden is a biological anthropologist who has studied key transitions in human evolution, including the ape-human split and the rise of our genus, Homo. He was present at the birth of Evolutionary Psychology, in room 14A of the Peabody Museum, at Harvard, and has been observing the field ever since. Greg writes about evolution, climate change, and other issues on his blog at National Geographic Scienceblogs, often provides public talks or interviews on these topics.<\/p>\n

Breakfast Buffet $12.00 Coffee only $3.00. We need to plan for the room setup and meal, so if you are going to attend, please RSVP by Friday, February 28. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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