Winter Quarter 2007

Wednesday, January 3

No seminar

Wednesday, January 10

Rudy Boonstra, University of Toronto at Scarborough
"Equipped for life: How life history and experience shape the stress axis in wild mammals"

Wednesday, January 17

Gonçalo Cardoso, University of Chicago
"Evolution of song and coloration in canaries and seedeaters (Serinus spp.)"

Wednesday, January 24

Alexa Bontrager, University of Chicago
"Breeding biology and inheritance of a color pattern in a monomorphic bird"

Wednesday, January 31

Jason Watters, Brookfield Zoo
"Understanding and applying the causes and consequences of behavioral variation"

Wednesday, February 7

Wendy Saltzman, University of California - Riverside
"Endocrinology of female reproductive competition in cooperatively breeding monkeys"

Wednesday, February 14

Geertrui Spaepen, University of Chicago
"What does a woman really tell a man? Female voice quality and production as possible markers of fecundity and mate attraction"

Wednesday, February 21

Megan Wilson, Lincoln Park Zoo
"Behavior of giant pandas"

Wednesday, February 28

Leila Porter, Northern Illinois University
"Fungi and Callimico: The influence of mycophagy on the ranging patterns and reproductive strategies of an Amazonian monkey"

Wednesday, March 7

Susan Alberts, Duke University
"Not just mother love: Paternal kinship and kin discrimination in wild baboons"

Wednesday, March 14

Katie Cronin, University of Wisconsin - Madison
"Cooperative problem solving and cooperative breeding"