Name: HBES 2027
Start: 2027-05-12T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2027-05-15T22:00:00-07:00
Location: Arizona State University

HBES 2027

from Wednesday, 12 May 2027 (08:00) to Saturday, 15 May 2027 (22:00)

Monday, 10 May 2027
Tuesday, 11 May 2027
Wednesday, 12 May 2027
08:00 Plenary: Recreational substance use: the evolutionary significance of drug toxicity over reward - Edward Hagen (Washington State University)
Plenary: Recreational substance use: the evolutionary significance of drug toxicity over reward
- Edward Hagen (Washington State University)
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Grand Ballroom 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', developing nervous systems, respectively. Analyses of national and cross-national data find virtually no substance use among children, a switch-like transition to substance use in adolescence, and a nearly universal male bias in substance use. They also find that various reproductive indices, such as total fertility rate and age of the youngest child, are negatively associated with women's substance use, even after controlling for indices of women’s social, economic, and educational status. These results suggest that fetal protection helps explain female drug use decisions. The onset of substance use in adolescents of both sexes might be explained by the diminishing developmental costs of toxin exposure vs. its increasing benefits in ancestral environments, such as self-medication against macroparasites.
09:00 Mental Health: Mental Health 1
Mental Health 1
09:00 - 12:00
Room: VMMC
Contributions

09:00 Depression is not a disoder - Edward Hagen (Washington State University)

09:20 Depression IS a disorder! - Randy Nesse (Michigan)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Mental Health: Mental Health 2
Mental Health 2
13:00 - 16:00
Room: VMMC
Contributions

13:00 Objective and subjective measures of stress in Latinx immigrants before and after the 2016 presidential election: hair cortisol, epigenetics, and mental health - Elizabeth Clausing (Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego) Kimberly D'Anna-Hernandez (Department of Psychology, California State University, San Marcos)
Thursday, 13 May 2027
08:00 Cooperation: Cooperation 1
Cooperation 1
08:00 - 09:00
Contributions

08:00 Ethnicity, fertility, and tobacco use: a biocultural test of the fetal protection model of female smoking - Tiffany Alvarez (UC Santa Barbara)
13:00 Cooperation: Cooperation 2
Cooperation 2
13:00 - 16:00
Contributions

13:00 Sexual division of labor in a Celtic population from Northern Italy: patterns of entheseal changes and long bone shape and robusticity from Seminario Vescovile - Drosia Charisi Zita Laffranchi (Department of Legal Medicine, Toxicology and Physical Anthropology, Medicine Faculty, University of Granada (Spain))
Friday, 14 May 2027
Saturday, 15 May 2027