30th Annual HBES Conference

A.P. Buunk (Speaker)

Social Psychology

Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic

Description

Introduction Frans de Waal for his Invited Plenary Address for the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Amsterdam, July 7
And several Poster presentations

Period	5-Jul-2018
Event title	30th Annual HBES Conference: Human Behavior & Evolution Society
Event type	Conference
Location	Amsterdam, NetherlandsShow on map

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We, the organizing committee, are thrilled to be hosting the 30th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Amsterdam. The Netherlands is a fitting place for this meeting. The first microscopes were developed by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in the 17th century, just an hour’s drive south of the conference venue. Some of the first work in evolutionary genetics was conducted by Hugo de Vries 100 years ago at the University of Amsterdam. The Nobel Prize winning ethologist Niko Tinbergen was raised in The Hague and educated in Leiden. Tinbergen’s student Jan van Hooff conducted pioneering work on primate behavior at Utrecht University, and Van Hooff’s student, Frans de Waal, is this year’s keynote speaker. And, as De Waal and Van Hooff were using evolutionary perspectives to better understand primates, Bram Buunk paved the way for evolutionary psychology at the University of Groningen in the 1980’s, with research programs focusing on mate choice and jealousy. We, your organizers, have active evolutionary psychology research programs at the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and our Dutch colleagues have similar programs at Leiden University, Radboud University, and the University of Groningen, among other institutes. Hence, many Dutch scientists are pleased to see this meeting being held in a nation that has been so strongly influenced by – and has influenced – some of the core scientific approaches of HBES.