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This Sunday, May 9th at 11:00 AM:
“Kin” is a construct that, in general, is shared by all humans; we all sense and/or consciously recognize that we have kin. But how we recognize our kin varies across groups and individuals. Not surprisingly, scholars of kinship—from anthropology to evolutionary psychology to sociobiology, have argued for over a century about how kinship should be defined. Most agree kinship is a social concept/construct that is influenced by, and ultimately influences the biology one inherits.
This presentation will focus on the relative importance of inherited biology versus inherited culture, and give thought to how our brains and bodies have been programmed to convey and recognize kinship.
Holly Moore, PhD is a neuroscientist currently living in Baltimore, MD. She is a Health Science Administrator/Program Official at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where she oversees a funding program for neuroscience research for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Before moving to NIH, she was Associate Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical College. Dr. Moore has a long-standing interest in how neural circuits operate to produce behavior, and how this has evolved across species and generations.