Paul Hooper - Santa Fe Institute
Evolution of Intergenerational Transfers
Date: 11/15/2018 (Thu)
Time: 3:30pm- 5:00pm
Location: Seminar will be held on-site: Gross Hall 270
Organizer: Jenny Tung
Meeting Schedule: Login or email the organizer to schedule a meeting.
All meetings will be held in the same location as the seminar unless otherwise noted.
8:30am - Breakfast- Belsky
9:00am - Breakfast- Belsky
9:30am - Breakfast- Belsky
10:00am - Susan Alberts
10:30am - Anne Pusey
11:00am - Jenny Tung
11:30am - Joe Hotz
12:00pm - Lunch- Herman Pontzer
12:30pm - Lunch- Herman Pontzer
1:00pm - Lunch- Herman Pontzer
1:30pm - Charlotte Lee
2:00pm - Robbie Burger
2:30pm - Angie O’Rand
3:00pm - Seminar Prep
3:30pm - Seminar Presentation (3:30pm to 5:00pm)
6:00pm - Dinner w/Jenny Tung, Charlotte Lee
Additional Comments: During graduate school, I made a detailed documentation of intergenerational transfers among forager-horticulturalists living in Bolivian Amazonia. The networks of investment that I observed spurred me to develop an evolutionary model of intergenerational transfers based on inclusive fitness and relative benefits (need) and costs. The model turned out to work remarkably well in predicting transfers within and between families. I'll discuss how this model is more broadly relevant for understanding the evolution of human life histories, including longevity, length of dependence, age-schedule of fertility, and demographic transitions.