PTNCE

Conference 2016

The Third Scientific Conference of Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies (PTNCE) was held on 28-30 September 2016 in Toruń. The Conference was organised by PTNCE and Centre for Language Evolution Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University.

The conference was chaired by Dr habil. Przemysław Żywiczyński and Dr Sławomir Wacewicz.

Plenary lectures were delivered by: Tamás Bereczkei, Robin Dunbar and Tomasz Grzybowski.

Tamás Bereczkei

Title of the lecture: Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis Revisited: What Evolved Cognitive and Social Skills May Underlie Human Manipulation.

Robin Dunbar

Title of the lecture: Time – the missing part of human evolution.

Tomasz Grzybowski

Title of the lecture: Genetic portrait of Slavic – speaking populations of Europe.

Competition winners:

Best talk:

Petr Tureček – Do people really have a “type”? – Consistency of mate choice examined

Best poster:

1^st place:

Gabriel Šaffa, Anna M. Kubicka, Martin Hromada – Full house: An effect of the number of children on the timing of menarche

2^nd place:

Filip J. Wojciechowski, Alexander Wielbass, Katarzyna A. Kaszycka, Milada Řeháková – The behaviour of the Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta)

3^rd place:

Agata Groyecka, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz, Michał Misiak, Piotr Sorokowski – Relationship between breast shape (ptosis) and the perception of woman’s attractiveness and age. Evidence from Poland and Papua

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