Male-Male Competition: Globalization, War, and Violence Saturday, October 27th 2:30 - 4:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Little attention is paid to the fact that in his book, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Darwin devoted twelve chapters to male-male competition (describing it as “the law of battle”), detailing intra-species male morphological and behavioral differences from molluscs through mammals, arriving finally and specifically at human mammals. Though this “law” is notsanctioned or obeyed by every human male, given human history, it appears an undeniable phenomenon. Buried in present-day research under the sobriquet of “sperm competition,” it never surfaces. Free and open to the public. Participants: R. Brian Ferguson Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University-Newark R. Brian Ferguson is a Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1988, for a study of economic and social change in a Puerto Rican village. Since then his primary area of research has been war and political violence. A generalist, he has published on war in “tribal” societies… read more » John Horgan Science Journalist; Director of the Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology John Horgan is a science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. A former senior writer atScientific American (1986-1997), he has also written for The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post,The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Slate, Discover,The London Times, The Times Literary Supplement, New Scientist, and other publications around the world. He… read more » E. James Lieberman Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, George Washington University School of Medicine E. James Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, George Washington University School of Medicine, practiced psychotherapy in Washington D.C. for 40 years after serving as Chief, Center for Child and Family Mental Health, NIMH in the 1960s. He has written extensively on Otto Rank, most recently editing The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto… read more » Maxine Sheets-Johnstone Courtesy Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is a philosopher whose first life was as a dancer/choreographer, professor of dance/dance scholar. She has an ongoing Courtesy Professor appointment in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon where she taught periodically in the 1990s. She has published numerous articles in humanities, art, and science journals, the latter journals most recently… read more »
R. Brian Ferguson Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University-Newark R. Brian Ferguson is a Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1988, for a study of economic and social change in a Puerto Rican village. Since then his primary area of research has been war and political violence. A generalist, he has published on war in “tribal” societies… read more »
John Horgan Science Journalist; Director of the Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology John Horgan is a science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. A former senior writer atScientific American (1986-1997), he has also written for The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post,The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Slate, Discover,The London Times, The Times Literary Supplement, New Scientist, and other publications around the world. He… read more »
E. James Lieberman Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, George Washington University School of Medicine E. James Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, George Washington University School of Medicine, practiced psychotherapy in Washington D.C. for 40 years after serving as Chief, Center for Child and Family Mental Health, NIMH in the 1960s. He has written extensively on Otto Rank, most recently editing The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto… read more »
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone Courtesy Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is a philosopher whose first life was as a dancer/choreographer, professor of dance/dance scholar. She has an ongoing Courtesy Professor appointment in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon where she taught periodically in the 1990s. She has published numerous articles in humanities, art, and science journals, the latter journals most recently… read more »