BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Darwin and the Descent of Emotionally Modern Man: How humans becam e such "\;other-regarding"\; apes - Professor Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Department of Anthropology\, University of California) DTSTART:20090710T153000Z DTEND:20090710T170000Z UID:TALK17760@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:13646 DESCRIPTION:**PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME**\n\nIn line with their common an cestry\, humans are remarkably similar to other apes. Like their larger b rained\, bipedal "cousins"\, Great Apes also use tools and exhibit a rudi mentary understanding of causality and Theory of Mind. However\, unique a mong apes\, humans possess much greater mutual understanding. In this lec ture I will explain why I am convinced that the psychological and emotion al underpinnings for apes to care so much about what others intend and fe el emerged as a byproduct of shared parental and alloparental care and p rovisioning of young\, what sociobiologists refer to as "cooperative bree ding". According to widely accepted chronology\, large-brained\, anatomic ally modern humans evolved around 150\,000 years ago\, and behaviorally modern humans\, capable of symbolic thought and language\, more recently still\, between 50-80\,000 years ago. But (I argue) these emotionally mo dern humans\, newly interested in the mental and subjective states of oth ers and characterized by prosocial impulses to give and share\, emerged far earlier evolving in the hominin line as early as the beginning of the Pleistocene\, 1.8 million years ago.\nFor CV and recent papers: www.citro na.com LOCATION:Department of Social Anthropology\, Seminar Room END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR