The Human Behavior and Evolution Society, or HBES, is an interdisciplinary, international society of researchers, primarily from the social and biological sciences, who use
modern evolutionary theory
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation t ...
to help to discover
human nature
Human nature is a concept that denotes the fundamental dispositions and characteristics—including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—that humans are said to have naturally. The term is often used to denote the essence of humankind, or ...
— including evolved emotional, cognitive and sexual adaptations. It was founded on October 29, 1988 at the
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
.
The official
academic journal
An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...
of the society is ''
Evolution and Human Behavior'', and the society has held annual conferences since 1989.
The membership in broadly international, and consists of scholars from many fields, such as
psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...
,
anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...
,
medicine
Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, and Health promotion ...
,
law,
philosophy,
biology
Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditar ...
,
economics
Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analy ...
and
sociology
Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation and ...
. Despite the diversity, HBES members "all speak the common language of
Darwinism
Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that ...
."
Presidents
The following individuals have served as presidents of HBES:
*
W.D. Hamilton (1988-1989)
* Randy Nesse (1989-1991)
*
Martin Daly (1991-1993)
*
Napoleon Chagnon
Napoleon Alphonseau Chagnon (27 August 1938 – 21 September 2019) was an American cultural anthropologist, professor of sociocultural anthropology at the University of Missouri in Columbia and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Chagnon ...
(1993-1995)
* Dick Alexander (1995-1997)
*
Margo Wilson (1997-1999)
*
John Tooby (1999-2001)
*
Bill Irons (2001-2003)
* Bobbi Low (2003-2005)
*
David Buss (2005-2007)
* Steve Gangestad (2007-2009)
*
Pete Richerson (2009-2011)
*
Randy Thornhill (2011-2013)
*
Mark Flinn Mark V. Flinn is a biomedical anthropologist, specializing in childhood stress, family relationships and health. His research includes a longitudinal 30-year study of child health in a rural community on the Caribbean island of Dominica. This study ...
(2013-2015)
* Elizabeth Cashdan (2015-2017)
*
Rob Kurzban (2017-2018)
* Doug Kenrick (2018-2019)
*
Leda Cosmides (2019-2021)
* David Schmitt (2021-)
See also
*
Dual inheritance theory
Dual inheritance theory (DIT), also known as gene–culture coevolution or biocultural evolution, was developed in the 1960s through early 1980s to explain how human behavior is a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes: gen ...
*
Evolutionary developmental psychology
*
Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evol ...
*
FOXP2 and human evolution
Forkhead box protein P2 (FOXP2) is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the ''FOXP2'' gene. FOXP2 is a member of the forkhead box family of transcription factors, proteins that regulate gene expression by binding to DNA. It is expressed in ...
*
Human behavioral ecology
References
External links
Official website
1988 establishments in Michigan
Organizations established in 1988
Anthropology organizations
Evolutionary psychology
Biology societies
Organizations based in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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