Symposium to Honor George C. Williams

Scientific program schedule

April 24, 2004

Registration and coffee will begin at 8:30 am at Harriman Auditorium.

Convener: Robert Sokal

9:00 Welcom from the Provost.

9:15 HELENA CRONIN
Title: Adaptation: "A critique of some current evolutionary thought."
Institution: Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics.

9:45 DAVID HAIG
Title: Reflections on pregnancy and Darwinian medicine.
Institution: Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.

10:15 Coffee

Convener: Albert Carlson

10:45 GEORGE BARLOW
Title: How do we decide that a species is sex-role reversed?
Institution: Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

11:15 RANDOLPH NESSE
Title: Maladaptation and natural selection.
Institution: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Michigan Medical School

11:45 STEVEN FERRARO
Title: Red-letter days.
Institution: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Hatfield Marine Science Center.

12:15 Lunch, Student Activity Center, Ballroom B

Convener: Ted Battley

1:30 MART GROSS
Title: Sex ratio theory
Institution: Department of Zoology, University of Toronto

2:00 BOBBI LOW
Title: Women’s lives in evolutionary perspective.
Institution: School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

2:30 MARY JANE WEST-EBERHARD
Title: What George Williams said about sex but didn't really believe.
Institution: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Escuela de Biologia, Universidad de Costa Rica.

3:00 Coffee

Convener: Larry Slobodkin

3:30 MARTIN DALY and MARGO WILSON
Title: Facultative modulation of risk-taking and future discounting in Homo sapiens.
Institution: Department of Phychology, McMaster University

4:00 Frank Erk
Title: George Williams at Stony Brook
Institution: Stony Brook University

The symposium is expected to end at 5:00 pm. We will then shift to the Old Field Club for the banquet.


For more information, contack the organizer for the event, Daniel Dykhuizen.

Last updated April 22, 2004.