3rd PTNCE Conference

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.

Competition winners:

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

• Best poster:

  • 1st place: Gabriel Šaffa, Anna M. Kubicka, Martin Hromada – Full house: An effect of the number of children on the timing of menarche

  • 2nd place: Filip J. Wojciechowski, Alexander Wielbass, Katarzyna A. Kaszycka, Milada Řeháková – The behaviour of the Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta)

  • 3rd 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