Our overt behavior makes us human

What makes us human ?

What makes us human?

To RSVP or for more information, please call Daniel Leonardich at 415.734.2080 or email [email protected] Science for Life lectures are free with open seating. Parking is available across the street in the UCSF Rutter Center garage. Co-sponsored by San Francisco Conservatory of Music cellist Erin Wang will share with us a brief discussion of “evolution” from baroque through contempora...

What makes us human?

The title of this report was the theme of the 7th Oxford International Biomedical Centre (OIBC) Symposium, just a few months after the publication of a paper suggesting that the genus Pan (including the chimpanzee and the bonobo) should be merged with the genus Homo. It has been realised for many years that the chimpanzee is our nearest living relative, and recent DNA studies have strengthened ...

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

We develop a simple model of cartel behavior under conditions of Bertrand competition with differentiated products. This model is then used to analyse the effects of ”Leniency Policy” on the cartel. We find that in some market situations introducing Leniency Policy causes the cartel to cease to be viable and competition results. However, in other cases the policy only serves to raise cartel pri...

What makes us human? Answers from evolutionary anthropology.

Today, scholars from numerous and highly diverse fields are not only addressing the question of what makes us human, but also seeking input from other disciplines to inform their answers to this fundamental issue. However, for the most part, evolutionary anthropologists are not particularly prominent in this discussion, or at least not acknowledged to be. Why is this the case? One reason may be...