On 6 Feb 2024, at 11:17, Gyorgyne Finta <Szabor@ceu.edu> wrote:

Dear All, 

 

this is a kind reminder for our next talk. For scheduling a meeting with the speaker, please turn to Angarika.

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The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by:

 

Nikhil Chaudhary, 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 hereto get access to the lecture hall.

 

Let Christophe Angarika know, please, if you would like to schedule a meeting with the speaker.

 

Best,

Reka

 

 

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DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE

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