University of Helsinki
Event: Westermarck-seminar
Presentation: Robert Lynch: Integration involves a trade-off between fertility and status for Finnish evacuees in World War II
Time: Monday 10th December at 4 pm to 6 pm
Place: University of Helsinki: Unioninkatu 35, ground floor, seminar room sh 114
Robert Lynch is an evolutionary scientist who currently works in the University of Turku. He graduated from Rutgers University in New Jersey with a PhD in biological anthropology in 2014. His advisor was Robert Trivers. After Rutgers he did a postdoc with Napoleon Chagnon at the University of Missouri. Still early in his research career Lynch have already published high-quality articles in several respected journals, e.g., PNAS, Nature Scientific Reports, Human Nature and Evolution and Human Behavior.
Robert Lynch currently works in a project “Learning from our past: the effect of forced migration from Karelia on family life” (PI John Loehr). Project’s webpage: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/projects/learning-from-our-past/data
Welcome to listen and discuss, no preregistration required!
Open Moodle platform for seminar can be found here: https://moodle.helsinki.fi/course/view.php?id=31386
Edward Westermarck (1862-1939) is a founding father of Finnish sociology and one of the world’s first evolutionary sociologist whose scientific thinking was a century ahead of its time. Westermarck seminar gathers together researchers and students interested in evolutionary research from different disciplines. Cross-disciplinary seminar is open to all.
Yhteystiedot / Contact:
Antti Tanskanen
Mirkka Danielsbacka