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