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Conferences Awards and Opportunities My Book
(1) The Human Behavior and Evolution Society will be meeting June 19-23, 2002 at Rutgers University. Further information can be found via the HBES website: http://hbes.tripod.com
(2) The 16th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Human Ethology will be held in Montreal, Canada, Wednesday, August 7 through Saturday, August 10. This year, in a three-way cooperative effort, the ASCAP Society will be meeting in the same venue just before the ISHE meeting, and APLS will be meeting in the same venue right afterward (see next two items below). For more information, see the ISHE website: http://evolution.anthro.univie.ac.at/ishe.html
(3) The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences will be meeting August 11-15, 2002, in Montreal, Canada. For more information, contact David Goetz at dgoetze@hass.usu.edu. Soon you will be able to check the APLS website at: http://198.110.216.3/apls/
(4) The ASCAP Society (Across Species Comparisons and Psychopathology) will be meeting Tuesday, August 6, Montreal, Canada. For more information contact Russell Gardner at rgj999@yahoo.com or the ASCAP website at http://www.theascapsociety.org/ASCAP/ASCAP.html
(5) The 2002 meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research will be in Hamburg, Germany June 19-22. Check www.iasr.org
(6) The 4th Annual SEAL Conference, originally scheduled for September, has been rescheduled as a function of the September tragedies. The new dates for the conference are April 19-20. As before, the conference will be co-hosted by Owen Jones and J.B. Ruhl at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Also as before, Steven Pinker will be the Keynote Banquest speaker. For more information, see the SEAL website at: www.sealsite.org. The 5th Annual SEAL Conference will be at the Vanderbilt University Law School, in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday and Saturday, October 18th and 19th, 2002. Erin O'Hara and Owen Jones will co-direct. More information, including a call for talk proposals, will be forthcoming. (Note: The relatively short turn-around between the 4th and 5th annual conferences represents a return to the customary fall schedule after the 4th annual conference was rescheduled due to travel disruptions following September 11th.)
The Association for Across Species Comparisons and Psychopathology (ASCAP) and The Board of Directors of the Foundation for Cognitive Therapy and Research would like to announce the commencement of the application period for the seventh Aaron T. Beck ASCAP Award. This $1000 award will go to the author of the best paper on a topic relating (broadly) to evolution and psychiatry that is submitted by a student or new investigator (person within five years of award of degree). The award is intended in part to support the winner's trip to a meeting of ASCAP to present the winning paper in oral form (45 mins) at the annual ASCAP meeting, this year held in August, in association with the ISHE meeting (see above). Entrants must be the sole or first author; in a change of the rules, the submitted paper may have been previously published. Deadline: March 1. For more information, see the ASCAP website at: http://www.theascapsociety.org/ASCAP/ASCAP.html
My Book:
"Sex Differences: Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies" (Academic Press) was published in April 2000. Below are the contents and two reviews. You can read more about it or order it through amazon.com or Barnes&Noble.com. Bulk orders for classroom adoption receive a 20% discount from Academic Press.
Sex Differences serves as an advanced text for courses in evolutionary and human biology, psychology, and sexuality and gender studies. It also serves as a reference source for academic professionals in these disciplines. The book covers the evolution of sex and sex differences, and sex differences and sexual strategies in non-human and human animals. The final chapter addresses issues of sex and gender in interpersonal relationships, organizations and politics. Diagrams, graphs, charts, and tables illustrate key concepts; cartoons and photos provide visual breaks and an element of humor.
Reviews
"This highly informative, compelling and readable treatment of how males and females differ in their physical characteristics, mating strategies and parenting behaviors will forever change the way all of us think about why we are the way that we are." --- Nancy L. Segal, Ph.D., Director,Twin Studies Center, Psychology Department, California State University, Fullerton California
"Linda Mealey combines an extraordinary ability for lucid explanation with great depth of knowledge... While there are many books on sex differences in behaviour, and many which aspire to using an evolutionary approach, I know of none which matches her treatment of the functional aspects of sex differences." ---
Professor Robert Hinde, Cambridge University, U.K.Key Features:
-Examines sexual differences from a multi-level comparative approach
-Contains a thorough coverage of literature through 1998 and into 1999
-Illustrates pages with a generous use of cartoons, photos, figures, and diagrams
-Invites bonus learning with special interest boxes interspersed throughout text
-Presents a critical analysis
-Includes a combination of feminist and evolutionary thinkingHome Page * Dr. Mealey's Page * Syllabi
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