Keynotes

Dr. Becky Burch , is an Associate Professor in the Human Development Program at SUNY Oswego. Dr. Burch has publications on the topics of seminal composition and human physiology and behavior, genital morphology, and intimate partner violence.

My career, a cautionary tale: What I, and we, can do better

Most Keynote addresses are a greatest hits album; a highlight reel of successful experiments and impactful findings. However, academic careers are series of decisions, both good and bad. For this talk, important studies and good decisions will be discussed, but it is the bad decisions, and what hasn’t been investigated, that might provide more insight into where we are as a field and where we should be going.

Dr. Bobbi Low is a Professor in the Natural Resources and Environment Department at the University of Michigan. Dr. Low has publications on the topics of ecology and life history and how they influence mating and marriage systems. She is also known for her book: Why Sex Matters . Dr. Low is pioneer in the field. Read more about her experiences as an early career researcher https://seas.umich.edu/news/05-23-2017/10_questions_professor_bobbi_low

Weird women: How modern women's lives are evolutionarily strange, and how they vary

We humans are somewhat unusual primates in our life histories. But among the variation in human lifetimes, one group stands out as almost bizarre in evolutionary terms: modern professional women in highly-developed nations. The life histories of most of the women I know, and likely most of women at this meeting, so unusual that we are, in an evolutionary sense, Weird Women. I’ll explore this in a comparative sense: just *what* is weird about our life histories? How did we get this way? Does it make evolutionary sense?