Public Lectures:

Here are the titles of some public lectures I have given in recent years:

  • The September 11 Syndrome and "subordination stress"
  • International Law, International Criminals, and the Invasion of Iraq
  • Passing the Pain Along .. in animals, people, and politics
  • The Downside of Aggressive Optimism
  • Darwinian Lit-Crit: examining Madame Bovary’s ovaries
  • Cancer, Culture and Biological Evolution
  • The Myth of Monogamy: what DNA tells us about animals and ourselves
  • Violence as an Evolutionary Hangover
  • Passing the Pain Along: a new way of thinking about terrorism, violence and revenge
  • Sex differences in behavior
  • Gametes, gonads, genes and gender
  • Sex, violence and rock & roll
  • Dilemmas of Deterrencer
  • An evolutionary psychologist looks at pornography
  • Evolutionary factors in nationalism
  • Downsides of deterrence
  • Biology and the prospects for world peace
  • Evolutionary existentialism and the meaning of life
  • Shared genes and shared behavior
  • Implications of evolutionary theory for psychiatric practice
  • The biology of Buddhism and vice versa
  • Individual differences in animals and people
  • Creativity and evolution
  • Passing the Pain Along: retaliation, revenge and redirected aggression
  • Evolution’s Odd Couple: the hare and the tortoise
  • Womanly Mysteries of Sex