HBES 2027

Contribution List

5. Plenary: Recreational substance use: the evolutionary significance of drug toxicity over reward

Prof. Edward Hagen (Washington State University)

12/05/2027, 08:00

Podium

Psychoactive drugs are widely used, it is thought, because they hijack reward-related neural circuitry. If so, drugs should be equally appealing to children and to adults of both sexes. Many drugs, however, are plant defensive chemicals. Hence, children, and to a lesser extent adult women, should have evolved to avoid consuming them to protect their, or their fetuses' and nursing infants',...

1. Depression is not a disoder

Prof. Edward Hagen (Washington State University)

12/05/2027, 09:00

Cognition

Podium

Mental Health

Major depression is considered to be a pathological response to stress that elicits aversive responses towards depressed individuals. Alternatively, depression might involve honest signals of need in response to stress and help to bargain for increased support from reluctant others. To test this hypothesis, we examined responses to a wide range of emotional signals in a vignette study in...

6. Depression IS a disorder!

Randy Nesse (Michigan)

12/05/2027, 09:20

Podium

Mental Health

Depression is bad and therefore a disorder

4. Objective and subjective measures of stress in Latinx immigrants before and after the 2016 presidential election: hair cortisol, epigenetics, and mental health

Prof. Elizabeth Clausing (Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego), Dr Kimberly D'Anna-Hernandez (Department of Psychology, California State University, San Marcos)

12/05/2027, 13:00

Cognition

Podium

Mental Health

Immigrants have faced high burdens of stress since long before the current administration’s anti-immigrant policies. This study is an investigation of how immigration-related stress may impact the biology and health of Latinx immigrant mothers and children, considering recent increases in divisive rhetoric and anti-immigrant policies in the U.S. We compared hair cortisol and DNA methylation at...

2. Ethnicity, fertility, and tobacco use: a biocultural test of the fetal protection model of female smoking

Dr Tiffany Alvarez (UC Santa Barbara)

13/05/2027, 08:00

Cooperation

Podium

Cooperation

Currently, cross-country variation in gender equality is thought to be the primary factor producing global tobacco use sex differences, with gender inequality, especially in low-to-middle-income countries, preventing women from obtaining and using tobacco. Our alternative hypothesis draws on the “fetal protection” theory from evolutionary anthropology which emphasizes that reproductively-aged...

3. Sexual division of labor in a Celtic population from Northern Italy: patterns of entheseal changes and long bone shape and robusticity from Seminario Vescovile

Dr Drosia Charisi, Prof. Zita Laffranchi (Department of Legal Medicine, Toxicology and Physical Anthropology, Medicine Faculty, University of Granada (Spain))

13/05/2027, 13:00

Cooperation

Podium

Cooperation

The presence of a sexual division of labor has been the focus of bioarchaeological research in a broad range of prehistoric contexts. Nonetheless, few data are available about the presence and type of gendered activities among Celtic populations. This gap hampers the analysis of the social nuances characterizing these populations and a broader understanding of the socioeconomic patterns...