The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by:
Nikhil Chaudhary<https://www.nikhilchaudhary.co.uk/>, Evolutionary Anthropologist
based at the University of Cambridge
Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024 (mind the unusual day please)
Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Venue: D318 (QS Vienna) and Zoom:
https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94486731045?pwd=VCt1WGZnd1F0MkZleGYvaDRpWEg3Zz09&…
Meeting ID: 944 8673 1045
Passcode: 328579
Chair: Christophe Heintz and Angarika Deb
Title: Hunter-Gatherer Social Organisation and Behaviour: Implications for Mental Health
Humans lived as hunter-gatherers for the vast majority of our species' history.
Therefore, research with contemporary hunter-gatherer societies can offer insight into the
evolution of our psychology and physiology. Drawing on my fieldwork with BaYaka
hunter-gatherers from Congo, I will discuss the selection pressures that have shaped human
social cognition and behaviour. I will focus on the communal living arrangements,
egalitarian social organisation, and extensive cooperation, particularly in the domain of
childrearing, which are normative across contemporary hunter-gatherer populations. I will
also discuss how deviations from these features of sociality, which are commonplace in
high-income industrialised societies, may increase our vulnerability to mental health
disorders due to evolutionary mismatch-when an organism faces conditions that differ from
those that some trait of the organism is adapted to, resulting in pathology or
maladaptation.
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP
here<https://forms.office.com/e/jbHch9J0Am> to get access to the lecture hall.
Let Christophe know, please, if you would like to schedule a meeting with the speaker.
Best,
Reka
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GyörgyNÉ Finta (Réka)
Department Coordinator
Department of cognitive SCience
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