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Lust and Love in the Animal Kingdom

Lust and Love in the Animal Kingdom

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The New York Academy of Sciences

Presented By

Presented by Science & the City

 

From monogamous birds to polygamous primates, we love to point to the animal kingdom to explain our sexual patterns and behaviors. Can swans teach us about monogamy? Is bonobo promiscuity a precursor to our own? Are ferocious creatures like Tyrannosaurus Rex ferocious "in bed" too? And which animals, in turn, just want to cuddle?

The Wildlife Conservation Society's Josh Ginsberg will moderate a panel composed of dinosaur sex expert Brian Switek; Danielle Lee, who studies the sex lives and bomb sniffing abilities of giant pouched rats, Marina Cords who studies non-human primates, and Stephanie Cacioppo who studies human primates.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, join the Academy as we explore lust and love in the animal kingdom!

Reception and Book Signing to Follow.

 

Registration Pricing

Member$15
Nonmember Student$20
Nonmember$25

 


 

This event is part of the Science and the Seven Deadly Sins Series

In this series we're looking at some of the ways the Seven Deadly Sins show up in the sciences. To do that, we're bringing together top scientists, authors, chefs, urban planners, and many others to help us explore our base nature. Each event will feature indulgent receptions afterwards, as well as opportunities for you to interact with the speakers and one another. Join us for this vice-ridden round of events!

Wrath Goes Viral, Oct 17, 2012
Pride: Flying Cars and other Broken Promises, Nov 28, 2012
Greed: Willing to Do Anything, Dec 11, 2012
Lust and Love in the Animal Kingdom, Feb 12, 2013
Sloth: Is Your City Making You Fat?, Mar 13, 2013
Envy: The Cutthroat Side of Science, Apr 30, 2013
Gluttony: Deconstructing Dinner, May 23, 2013

Learn more about the series here.

Speakers

Moderator

Joshua Ginsberg, PhD

Wildlife Conservation Society

Joshua Ginsberg spent 15 years (1980–1995) working on large mammal ecology, conservation and behavior projects in Asia and East and Southern Africa as a faculty member at Oxford University, University College London, and the Institute of Zoology, London. He served as Director of the Asia Program at WCS from 1996–2004, Acting Director of the WCS Africa Program for 10 months in 2002 and Vice President for Conservation Operations from 2003-2009.

Prof. Ginsberg's research interests have shifted from behavioral ecology to studying the factors that influence the persistence of endangered species, particularly (but not exclusively) those living in and around protected areas. While not actively pursuing field research, he is currently working on projects with students that look at the effectiveness of protected areas, and at fragmentation of tropical forests in Asia, and the role of restoration in the recovery of endangered species.

Speakers

Stephanie Cacioppo

University of Chicago

Professor Stephanie Cacioppo (née Ortigue) received her PhD in psychology and cognitive neuroscience from the University Hospital of Geneva (Switzerland) and the University of Savoy (France). Author of over 40 scientific articles, her work focuses on social neuroscience, neurology, implicit cognition, and in particular the consciousness of the interacting brain in social settings. Specifically, she is interested in the modulations of the neural networks mediating social cognition and cognitive interdependence, including the understanding of others' intentions, desires, and complex emotions, in both healthy and clinical populations.

 

Marina Cords

Columbia University

Marina Cords received her BS in Biology from Yale University in 1978, and her PhD in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. She held a Fogarty International Fellowship at the University of Zürich (Department of Ethology and Wildlife Research) in 1985, and returned to the University of Zürich in 1988–1991 with an H.F. Guggenheim Career Development Award. In 1986 and 1987, she held appointments as research scientist at the University of California Primate Center (Davis), and as lecturer at UC Berkeley (Department of Zoology) and Rutgers University (Department of Zoology and Physiology). Since 1991 she has been on the faculty at Columbia University, where she is now professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology (E3B) and also in the Department of Anthropology. Together with colleagues at CUNY and NYU, as well as the American Museum of Natural History and the Wildlife Conservation Society, she oversees the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP), an NSF-funded consortial doctoral program that links behavioral, ecological, conservation, genetic, and morphological research on primates.

Danielle N. Lee

Oklahoma State University

Danielle N. Lee is an Outreach Scientist who studies animal behavior and behavioral ecology at Oklahoma State University. While completing her dissertation research on individual differences on exploratory behavior of field mice, she mentored several undergraduate and high school students as biology research assistants. In 2009, she was named the Diversity Scholars Award recipient by the American Institute of Biological Sciences for her contributions to science and promoting diversity within the field. Her outreach efforts emphasize sharing science to general audiences, particularly under-served groups, via outdoor programming and social media. She writes about science, research news, and diversity outreach in science, technology, engineering, and math for several online communities and at her other science blogs: Urban Science Adventures! She tweets @dnlee5

Brian Switek

Journalist

Brian Switek is a freelance science writer specializing in evolution, paleontology, natural history, and the history of science. He blogs regularly at WIRED Science's Laelaps and Smithsonian magazine's Dinosaur Tracking. Brian's critically-acclaimed debut — Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature — is now available through Bellevue Literary Press and Icon Books. His next book — My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs — will be published by Scientific American/FSG in April 2013. He tweets @laelaps

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