Topics and Speaker Biographies

This Human Evolution and Human Development symposium features speakers from many countries and disciplines who will provide their expertise.

To learn more about the speakers and the topics they will discuss, please select a speaker from the list below or on the right side of the page.

SPEAKER: Frances Champagne
AFFILIATION: Columbia University
TOPIC: The Epigenetics of Mammalian Parenting

SPEAKER: Frans de Waal
AFFILIATION: Emory University
TOPIC: Primate Evolution

SPEAKER: Peter Gray
AFFILIATION: Boston College
TOPIC: How Hunter-Gatherers Controlled their Human Nature to Create Peaceful, Egalitarian Societies

SPEAKER: Lee Gettler
AFFILIATION: University of Notre Dame
TOPIC: Socioendocrinology and models of allocare in human evolution

SPEAKER: Eugene Halton
AFFILIATION: University of Notre Dame
TOPIC: Presymbolic Interaction: Genetic Dictates and Protosymbolic Communication

SPEAKER: Barry Hewlett
AFFILIATION: Washington State University, Vancouver
TOPIC: Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods

SPEAKER: Katie Hinde
AFFILIATION: Harvard University
TOPIC: Mother’s Milk & Organization of the Infant’s Behavioral Phenotype

SPEAKER: Ruth Lanius
AFFILIATION: London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario
TOPIC: Hidden Trauma in Early Life

SPEAKER: Karlen Lyons-Ruth
AFFILIATION: Harvard Medical School
TOPIC: Parenting and Child Outcomes

SPEAKER: Darcia Narvaez
AFFILIATION: University of Notre Dame
TOPIC: Early Experience, Moral Development and Human Nature

SPEAKER: Kristin Valentino
AFFILIATION: University of Notre Dame
TOPIC: The Conditions for and Effects of Maltreatment