Geoffrey Miller

Associate Professor
Email: gfmiller@unm.edu
Office: Logan 160
Office hours: Wednesdays 10:30 am to noon
Phone: (505) 277-1967 (office voice/fax)

Miller, G. F., (2009). Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior. Viking Adult (New York); 384 pages.
Spent Endnotes
Spent References

Geher, G., & Miller, G. F. (Eds.). (2007). Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind's reproductive system. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Mahwah, NJ); 451 pages.
NY Times article link
Psychology Today article link

Miller, G. F., (2001) The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature. Anchor. 528 pages.

The Mating Mind Editions:

• U.S. hardback, Doubleday (New York)
• U.S. paperback, Anchor (New York)
• U.K./Commonwealth hardback, Heinemann (London)
• U.K./Commonwealth paperback, Vintage (London)
• Chinese: CITIC Publishing (Beijing)
• Croatian: Algoritam Publishing (Zagreb)
• Dutch, Uitgeverij/Contact (Amsterdam) (De parende geest: Seksuele selectie en de evoltie van het bewustzijn) [Link]
• Finnish: Art House (Helsinki)
• German, Spektrum Verlag (Berlin) (Die sexuelle Evolution. Partnerswahl und die Entstehung des Geistes.)
• Hungarian: Typotex Publishing (Budapest)
• Italian, Eindaudi (Torino) (Uomini, donne e code di pavone) [Link]
• Japanese, Iwanami Shoten (Tokyo) (The mating mind)
• Korean: Sosoh Publishing (Seoul)
• Polish: REBIS Publishing (Warsaw)
• Portugese, Campus (Rio de Janeiro) (A Mente Seletiva: Como a escolha sexual influencio a evolução de natureza humana) [Link]
• Croatian: [Link]
• Hungarian: [Link]
• Polish: [Link]

Summaries of The Mating Mind:

• Psycoloquy Precis [HTML]
• Chapter 1 [HTML]

Interviews:

• EDGE Interview [HTML]

Book reviews of The Mating Mind:

• by Catherine Marler in Science [HTML]
• by Michael Balter in Science [HTML]
• by Margaret Boden in Nature [HTML]
• by Dylan Evans in The Guardian [HTML]
• by David Barash [HTML]
• by Anthony Campbell [HTML]
• by Denis Dutton [HTML]
• by Timothy Horvarth [HTML]
• by Leif Kennair [HTML]
• by Heather Maxwell [HTML]
• by William Spriggs [HTML]
• by John Wagner [HTML]
• by Mikkel Wallentin (in Danish) [HTML]

Miller, G. F. (in preparation). All-consuming instincts: Why we buy fake cues of evolutionary success; c. 400 pages. (Research completed; in preparation for c. 2011 publication).

Papers

• Pierce, A., Miller, G. F., Arden, R., & Gottfredson, L. (2009). Why is intelligence correlated with semen quality? Biochemical pathways common to sperm and neurons, and the evolutionary genetics of general fitness. Communicative and Integrative Biology. 2(5), 1-3. [PDF]
• Klimentidis, Y. C., Miller, G. F., & Shriver, M. D. (in press). Genetic admixture, self-reported ethnicity, self-estimated admixture, and skin pigmentation among Hispanics and Native Americans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20945 [PDF]
• Arden, R., Gottfredson, L., Miller, G. F., & Pierce. A. (in press). Intelligence and semen quality are positively correlated. Intelligence. DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2008.11.001 [PDF]
• Greengross, G., & Miller, G. F. (in press). The Big Five personality traits of stand-up comedians. Personality and Individual Differences. [PDF]
• Arden, R., Gottfredson, L., & Miller, G. F. (in press). Does a fitness factor contribute to the association between intelligence and health outcomes? Evidence from medical abnormality counts among 3,654 US Veterans. Intelligence.  [PDF]
  
• Andrews, P. W., Gangestad, S. W., Miller, G. F., Haselton, M. G., Thornhill, R., & Neale, M. C. (2008). Sex differences in detecting sexual infidelity: Results of a maximum likelihood method for analyzing the sensitivity of sex differences to underreporting. Human Nature, 19, 347-373. [PDF]
• Shaner, A., Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (2008). Autism as the low-fitness extreme of a parentally selected fitness indicator. Human Nature, 19, 389-413. [PDF]
• Hooper, P., & Miller, G. F. (2008). Mutual mate choice can drive ornament evolution even under perfect monogamy. Adaptive Behavior, 16(1), 53-70. [PDF]
• Greengross, G., & Miller, G. F. (2008). Dissing oneself versus dissing rivals: Effects of status, personality, and sex on the short-term and long-term attractiveness of self-deprecating and other-deprecating humor. Evolutionary Psychology, 6(3), 393-408. [PDF]
• Miller, G. F., Tybur, J., & Jordan, B. (2007). Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap-dancers: Economic evidence for human estrus? Evolution and Human Behavior. [PDF]
• Tybur, J. M., Miller, G. F., & Gangestad, S. W. (2007). Testing the controversy: An empirical examination of adaptationists' attitudes towards politics and science. Human Nature, 18(4). [PDF]
• Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J. M., Sundie, J. M., Cialdini, R. B., Miller, G. F., & Kenrick, D. T. (2007). Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption: When romantic motives elicit costly displays. J. Personality and Social Psychology. [PDF]
• Miller, G. F. (2007). Reconciling evolutionary psychology and ecological psychology: How to perceive fitness affordances. Acta Psycholigica Sinica, 39(3), 546-555. [Special issue on evolutionary psychology]. [PDF]
• Miller, G. F., & Tal, I. (2007). Schizotypy versus intelligence and openness as predictors of creativity. Schizophrenia Research, 93(1-3), 317-324. [PDF]
• Penke, L., Denissen, J. J., & Miller, G. F. (2007). The evolutionary genetics of personality [target article]. European J. of Personality, 21(5), 549-587. [PDF]
• Penke, L., Denissen, J. J., & Miller, G. F. (2007). Evolution, genes, and interdisciplinary personality research [response to 22 commentaries] European J. of Personality, 21(5), 639-665. [PDF]
• Shaner, A., Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (2007). Age at onset of schizophrenia: Evidence of a latitudinal gradient. Schizophrenia Research, 94(1-3), 58-63. [PDF]
• Miller, G. F., & Penke, L. (2007). The evolution of human intelligence and the coefficient of additive genetic variance in human brain size. Intelligence, 35(2), 97-114. [PDF]
• Andrews, P. W., Aggen, S. H., Miller, G. F., Radi, C., Dencoff, J. E., & Neale, M. C. (2007). The functional design of depression’s influence on attention: A preliminary test of alternative control-process mechanisms. Evolutionary Psychology, 5(3), 584-604. [PDF]
• Miller, G. F. (2007). Sexual selection for moral virtues. Quarterly Review of Biology, 82(2), 97-125. [PDF]
• Haselton, M., & Miller, G. F. (2006). Women's fertility across the cycle increases the short-term attractiveness of creative intelligence. Human Nature, 17(1), 50-73. [PDF]
• Cliff, D., & Miller, G. F. (2006). Visualizing coevolution with CIAO plots. Artificial Life, 12(2), 199-202. [PDF]
• Miller, G. F. (2006). The Asian future of evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary Psychology, 4: 107-119. [PDF]
• Miller, G. F. (2006). Asian creativity: A response to Satoshi Kanazawa. Evolutionary Psychology, 4: 129-137. [PDF]
• Keller, M., & Miller, G. F. (2006). Which evolutionary genetic models best explain the persistence of common, harmful, heritable mental disorders? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 385-404. [target article] [PDF]
• Keller, M., & Miller, G. F. (2006). An evolutionary framework for mental disorders: Integrating adaptationist and evolutionary genetics models. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 429-452. [response to 23 commentaries] [PDF]
• Sefcek, J. A., Brumbach, B. H., Vásquez, G., & Miller, G. F. (2006). The evolutionary psychology of human mate choice: How ecology, genes, fertility, and fashion influence our mating behavior. J. of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 18(2/3), 125-182. [PDF]
• Prokosch, M., Yeo, R., & Miller, G. F. (2005). Intelligence tests with higher g-loadings show higher correlations with body symmetry: Evidence for a general fitness factor mediated by developmental stability. Intelligence, 33, 203-213. [PDF]
• Barrett, H. C., Todd, P. M., Miller, G. F., & Blythe, P. (2005). Accurate judgments of intention from motion cues alone: A cross-cultural study. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(4), 313-331. [PDF]
• Shaner, A., Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (2004). Schizophrenia as one extreme of a sexually selected fitness indicator. Schizophrenia Research, 70(1), 101-109. [PDF]
• Miller, G. F. (2001). Precis of ‘ 'The mating mind'. Psycholoquy 12(008). (For multiple book review): [HTML]
• Miller, G. F. (2001). Aesthetic fitness: How sexual selection shaped artistic virtuosity as a fitness indicator and aesthetic preferences as mate choice criteria. Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts 1, special issue on Evolution, creativity, and art. [Word]
• Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1998). Mate choice turns cognitive. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2(5), 190-198. [PDF]
• Husbands, P., Harvey, I., Cliff, D., & Miller, G. F. (1997). Artificial evolution: A new path for artificial intelligence? Brain and Cognition, 34, 130-159.[PDF]
• Todd, P. M., & Miller. G. F. (1997). How cognition shapes cognitive evolution. IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and their applications, 12(4), 7-9.
• Miller, G. F., & Shepard, R. N. (1993). An objective criterion for apparent motion based on phase discrimination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19(1), 48-62. Todd, P. M., & Miller, G. F. (1993). Parental guidance suggested: How parental imprinting evolves through sexual selection as an adaptive learning mechanism. Adaptive Behavior, 2(1), 5-47.

Book Chapters

• Miller, G. F. (commissioned, in preparation). Preface. For A. De Block & P. R. Adriaens (Eds.), Darwin and psychiatry: Philosophical perspectives. Oxford U. Press.
• Miller, G. F. (in press). Are polygenic mutations and Holocene selective sweeps the only evolutionary-genetic processes left for explaining heritable variation in human psychological traits? For D. M. Buss & P. H. Hawley (Ed.), The evolution of personality and individual differences. NY: Oxford U. Press.
• Nijhawan, R., Watanabe, K., Suganuma, M., Miller, G. F., & Freyd, J. (2009). Common processes in representational momentum and the flash-lag effect. In R. Nijhawan & B. Khurana (Eds.), Problems of space and time in perception and action. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press. 
• Miller, G. F. (2008). Magnaminity, fidelity, and other sexually-selected virtues. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral psychology (Vol. 1): The evolution of morality: Adaptations and innateness (pp. 209-243). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Miller, G. F. (2008). Response to comments. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral psychology (Vol. 1): The evolution of morality: Adaptations and innateness (pp. 263-267). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  
• Miller, G. F. (2007). Brain evolution. In S. W. Gangestad & J. A. Simpson (Eds.), The evolution of human mind: Fundamental questions and controversies (pp. 287-293). New York: Guilford Press.
• Miller, G. F. (2007). Runaway consumerism explains the Fermi paradox. In J. Brockman (Ed.), What is your dangerous idea? (pp. 240-243). New York: Harper Perennial.
• Geher, G., Miller, G. F., & Murphy, J. (2007). Introduction: The origins and nature of mating intelligence. In G. Geher & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind’s reproductive system, pp. 3-34. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Shaner, A., Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (2007). Mental disorders as catastrophic failures of mating intelligence. In G. Geher & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind’s reproductive system (pp. 193-223).
• Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Kaufman, S. B., Kozbelt, A., Bromley, M. L., & Miller, G. F. (2007). The role of creativity and humor in mate selection. In G. Geher & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind’s reproductive system (pp. 227-262). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Miller, G. F. (2007). Mating intelligence: Frequently asked questions. In G. Geher & Miller, G. F. (Eds.), Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind’s reproductive system (pp. 367-393). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Sefcek, J. A., Brumbach, B. H., Vásquez, G., & Miller, G. F. (2007). The evolutionary psychology of human mate choice: How ecology, genes, fertility, and fashion influence our mating behavior. In M. Knauth (Ed.), Handbook of the evolution of human sexuality (pp. 125-182). Binghampton, NY: Haworth Press.
• Miller, G. F. (2007). Sexual selection. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Miller, G. F. (2007). A secular humanist death. In J. Brockman (Ed.), What are you optimistic about? Today’s leading thinkers on why things are good and getting better. New York: Harper Perennial.  
• Miller, G. F. (2003). Fear of fitness indicators: How to deal with our ideological anxieties about the role of sexual selection in the origins of human culture. In Being human: Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Royal Society of New Zealand (Miscellaneous series 63) (pp. 65-79). Wellington, NZ: Royal Society of New Zealand.  
• Miller, G. F. (2002). How did language evolve? In H. Swain (Ed.), Big questions in science (pp. 79-90). London: Jonathan Cape.
• Miller, G. F. (2002). The science of subtlety. In J. Brockman (Ed.), The next fifty years (pp. 85-92). New York: Vintage.
• Miller, G. F. (2000). Mental traits as fitness indicators: Expanding evolutionary psychology’s adaptationism. In D. LeCroy & P. Moller (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on human reproductive behavior (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 907) (pp. 62-74). New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
• Miller, G. F. (2000). Sexual selection for indicators of intelligence. In G. Bock, J. Goode, & K. Webb (Eds.), The nature of intelligence (Novartis Foundation Symposium 233) (pp. 260-275). New York: John Wiley.
• Miller, G. F. (2000). Evolution of human music through sexual selection. In N. L. Wallin, B. Merker, & S. Brown (Eds.), The origins of music (pp. 329-360). MIT Press.
• Miller, G. F. (2000). Marketing. In J. Brockman (Ed.), The greatest inventions of the last 2,000 years (pp. 121-126). New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Miller, G. F. (2000). Technological evolution as self-fulfilling prophecy. In J. Ziman (Ed.), Technological innovation as an evolutionary process (pp. 203-215). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press.
• Miller, G. F. (1999). Sexual selection for cultural displays. In R. Dunbar, C. Knight, & C. Power (Eds.), The evolution of culture (pp. 71-91). Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh U. Press.
• Blythe, P. W., Todd, P. M., & Miller, G. F. (1999). How motion reveals intention: Categorizing social interactions. In G. Gigerenzer & P. Todd. (Eds.), Simple heuristics that make us smart (pp. 257-285). Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.
• Todd, P.M., & Miller, G. F. (1999). From Pride and Prejudice to Persuasion: Satisficing in mate search. In G. Gigerenzer & P. Todd. (Eds.), Simple heuristics that make us smart (pp. 286-308). Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.
• Miller, G. F. (1998). How mate choice shaped human nature: A review of sexual selection and human evolution. In C. Crawford & D. Krebs (Eds.), Handbook of evolutionary psychology: Ideas, issues, and applications (pp. 87-129). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Todd, P. M., and Miller, G. F. (1997). Biodiversity through sexual selection. In C. G. Langton and K. Shimohara (Eds.), Artificial Life V: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (pp. 289-299). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.
• Miller, G. F. (1997). Protean primates: The evolution of adaptive unpredictability in competition and courtship. In A. Whiten & R. W. Byrne (Eds.), Machiavellian intelligence II: Extensions and evaluations (pp. 312-340). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press.
• Miller, G. F. (1997). Mate choice: From sexual cues to cognitive adaptations. In G. Cardew (Ed.), Characterizing human psychological adaptations (Ciba Foundation Symposium 208) (pp. 71-87). New York: John Wiley.
• Blythe, P., Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1996). Human simulation of adaptive behavior: Interactive studies of pursuit, evasion, courtship, fighting, and play. In P. Maes, M. J. Mataric, J.-A. Meyer, J. Pollack, & S. W. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 13-22). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Cliff, D., & Miller, G. F. (1996). Co-evolution of pursuit and evasion II: Simulation methods and results. In P. Maes, M. J. Mataric, J.-A. Meyer, J. Pollack, & S. W. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 506-515). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Cliff, D., & Miller, G. F. (1995). Tracking the Red Queen: Methods for measuring co-evolutionary progress in open-ended simulations. In F. Moran, A. Moreno, J. J. Merelo, & P. Cachon (Eds.), Advances in artificial life: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Artificial Life (pp. 200-218). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
• Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1995). The role of mate choice in biocomputation: Sexual selection as a process of search, optimization, and diversification. In W. Banzhaf & F. H. Eeckman (Eds.), Evolution and biocomputation: Computational models of evolution (pp. 169-204). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
• Miller, G. F., & Cliff, D. (1994). Protean behavior in dynamic games: Arguments for the co-evolution of pursuit-evasion tactics in simulated robots. In D. Cliff, P. Husbands, J. A. Meyer, & S. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 3: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 411-420). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.
• Miller, G. F. (1994). Exploiting mate choice in evolutionary computation: Sexual selection as a process of search, optimization, and diversification. In T. C. Fogarty (Ed.), Evolutionary Computing: Proceedings of the 1994 Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior (AISB) Society Workshop (pp. 65-79). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
• Husbands, P., Harvey, I., Cliff, D., & Miller, G. F. (1994). The use of genetic algorithms for the development of sensorimotor control systems. In P. Gaussier & J. D. Nicoud (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop from Perception to Action (pp. 100-121). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press.
• Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1993). Evolutionary wanderlust: Sexual selection with directional mate preferences. In J.-A. Meyer, H. L. Roitblat, & S. W. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 21-30). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.
• Todd, P. M., & Miller, G. F. (1991). Exploring adaptive agency II: Simulating the evolution of associative learning. In J.-A. Meyer & S. W. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 306-315). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.
• Todd, P. M., & Miller, G. F. (1991). Exploring adaptive agency III: Simulating the evolution of habituation and sensitization. In H.-P. Schwefel & R. Manner (Eds.), Parallel problem solving from nature (pp. 307-313). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
• Todd, P. M., & Miller, G. F. (1991). On the sympatric origin of species: Mercurial mating in the Quicksilver Model. In R. K. Belew & L. B. Booker (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (pp. 547-554). San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
• Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1990). Exploring adaptive agency I: Theory and methods for simulating the evolution of learning. In D. S. Touretsky, J. L. Elman, T. J. Sejnowski, & G. E. Hinton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1990 Connectionist Models Summer School (pp. 65-80). San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
• Miller, G. F., Todd, P. M., & Hegde, S. U. (1989). Designing neural networks using genetic algorithms. In J. D. Schaffer (Ed.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (pp. 379-384). San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

Journal Commentaries, Abstracts, and Letters

• Miller, G. F. (2006). Debating sexual selection and mating strategies. Science, 312(5774), 693. [letter re. Roughgarten et al., 2006]
• Miller, G. F. (2000). How to keep our meta-theories adaptive: Beyond Cosmides, Tooby, and Lakatos. Psychological Inquiry, 11, 42-46.
• Miller, G. F. (1994). Beyond shared fate: Group-selected mechanisms for cooperation and competition in fuzzy, fluid vehicles. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17(4), 630-631.
• Freyd, J. J., & Miller, G. F. (1992). Creature motion. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 30(6), 470.
• Miller, G. F. (1991). Two dynamic criteria for validating claims of optimality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14(2): 228-229.
• Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1991). Let evolution take care of its own. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14(1): 101-102.

Book reviews

• Miller, G. F. (2004). Review of “Descartes’ baby: How the science of child development explains what makes us human” by Paul Bloom. Seed magazine, September. 
• Miller, G. F. (2001). The dark continent of sexual strategies. (Review of “The myth of monogamy” by David Barash and Judith Eve Lipton). Cerebrum, 3(3), 113-120.
• Miller, G. F. (2000). Alas, poor scholarship (Review of Alas, poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology, ed. Hilary Rose & Steven Rose). London Evening Standard, July 3.
• Miller, G. F. (2000). Memetic evolution and human culture. (Lead review of "The meme machine" by Susan Blackmore). Quarterly Review of Biology, 75(4), 434-436.
• Miller, G. F. (1998). Review of "The handicap principle" by Amotz Zahavi. Evolution and Human Behavior, 19(5), 343-347.
• Miller, G. F. (1997). Games real people play (Review of Brian Skyrms’ Evolution of the social contract). Times Literary Supplement, Aug. 29.
• Miller, G. F. (1994). Review of Meyer, Roitblat, & Wilson (Eds.), "From Animals to Animats 2", Biosystems, 33, 149-152.
• Miller, G.F., & Todd, P.M. (1994). Review of Barkow, Cosmides, and Tooby (Eds.), "The adapted mind", Adaptive Behavior, 3(1), 83-95.

Invited Talks

• Talk, Oxford conference on Darwin, Sept. 2009, Oxford, UK.
• Talk, Trondheim conference on Darwin, Aug. 2009, Trondheim Norway.
• Talk, Oslo conference on Darwin, Aug. 2009, Oslo, Norway.
• Talk submitted for Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, Cal State Fullerton, Los Angeles, May 2009.
• Runaway consumerism. Public lecture, Ilahee Institute, Portland, May 2009.
• Runaway consumerism. Public lecture, Town Hall, Seattle, May 2009.
• Runaway consumerism. Public lecture, Mechanics Institute, San Francisco, May 2009.
• Sex, mutations, and human intelligence. Colloquium, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia March 2009.
• Human evolution: The mating game. Talk, Writers at the Convent literary festival, Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 2009.
• Darwin and the global financial crisis: The evolutionary psychology of conspicuous consumption. Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 2009.
• Sex, mutations, and human intelligence. Evolution: The experience conference, Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 2009.
• Conspicuous consumption as trait display: How human instincts for showing off intelligence, personality traits, and moral virtues influence consumer behaviour. Talk, Marketing Unit, Harvard Business School, Oct. 2008.
• Sex, mutations, and human intelligence: New research on mental fitness indicators. Colloquium, Psychology Department, Brandeis University, Oct. 2008.
• How social monogamy bred sexual equality: The implications of mutual mate choice for human mental traits. Colloquium, Anthropology Department, Harvard University, Oct. 2008
• Sex, mutations, and human intelligence: New research on mental fitness indicators. Colloquium, Psychology Department, Harvard University, Oct. 2008.
• Mutual mate choice can drive ornament evolution even under perfect monogamy. Behavior Genetics Association, Louisville Kentucky, June 2008.
• Sexual selection and the origins of schizophrenia. Lecture for the Association of Hyderabard Psychiatrists, Hyderabad, India, Feb. 2008.
• Human mental evolution: Sexual selection, intelligence, and creativity. Lecture for the University of Hyderabad, India, Feb. 2008.
• Sexual selection, beauty, and creativity. Annual lecture for P. M. Bhargava Foundation, Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India, Feb. 2008.
• The evolutionary social psychology of consumer behavior. Lecture for the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Feb. 2008.
• The evolution of human intelligence and creativity. Lecture for the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Feb. 2008.
• The evolutionary social psychology of consumer behavior. Evolutionary Psychology Pre-Conference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, Albuquerque, Feb. 2008.
• Sex, creativity, and art. Talk and discussion with musician/artist David Byrne, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Oct. 2007.
• Sexual selection, creativity, and mental illness. Talk, Conference on Love and Sex, University of Amsterdam, June 2007.
• Sexual selection, intelligence, and creativity: New research on mental fitness indicators. Psychology Colloquium, New Mexico State University, November 2006.
• Sexual selection, beauty, and creativity. Humanities Colloquium, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, October 2006.
• Schizophrenia and sexual selection: The new evolutionary genetics of psychosis. Colloquium, Psychiatry Department Grand Rounds, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, March, 2006.
• A general fitness factor underlying cognitive function, mental health, and physical health: Theory and evidence. Colloquium, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Richmond, VA, March, 2006.
• Mutual mate choice for intelligence as a fitness-indicator. Talk, International Society for Intelligence Research, Albuquerque, NM, December 2005.
• Mate choice heuristics and fitness indicators. Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Symposium, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany, October 2005.
• Vaginismus as an adaptive anti-copulation defence. Talk, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Austin, Texas, June 2005.
• Schizophrenia as one extreme of a sexually-selected fitness indicator. Professional Development Seminar, Psychiatry Department, University of New Mexico, March 2005.
• Genetic correlations among intelligence and personality traits: Mental traits as indicators of pleiotropic mutation load. Talk, Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, Berlin, Germany, June 2004.
• Sexual selection for moral virtues as fitness indicators. Talk, Conference on the Evolution of Morality, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, May 2004.
• Sex, intelligence, and fitness. Colloquium, Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, December 2003.
• Why big brains? Gut-focused vs. gonad-focused models of human mental evolution. Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences Colloquium, University of New Mexico, December 2003.
• How women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle. Talk, Psi Chi (Psychology Honors Society), University of New Mexico, November 2003.
• The mating mind: Ovulatory cycle effects on female preferences for male verbal creativity. Talk, Evolution and Human Behavior Colloquium, University of Michigan, October 2003.
• The mating mind: Intelligence and creativity as sexually selected good genes indicators. Address, American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, August 2003.
• A great sense of humor is a good genes indicator: Ovulatory cycle effects on the sexual attractiveness of male humor ability. Talk, Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, June 2003.
• Language, intelligence, and humor through sexual selection: New evidence for ovulatory cycle effects on women’s preferences for verbal creativity. Colloquium, Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, England, June 2003
• The mating mind: New evidence that human intelligence and creativity evolved through mutual mate choice as genetic fitness indicators. Colloquium, Psychology Department, University of Arizona, February, 2003.
• The role of fitness indicators in person perception: Evidence from ovulatory cycle effects. Psychology Department colloquium, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, November 2002.
• Human evolution and sexual selection. Public lecture, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, November 2002.
• Darwinian aesthetics. The annual Toyota Lecture, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, October 2002.
• The role of fitness indicators in the evolution of human and extra-terrestrial intelligence. Talk, Conference on “Fine-tuning in biological systems”, Windsor Castle, London, England, September 2002.
• Schizophrenia as a disorder of sexually-selected verbal courtship abilities. Talk, Evolution and Emotions Group, King's College London, England, May 2001.
• Sexual selection and psychometrics: How human mental traits evolved as fitness indicators. Psychology Department seminar, Edinburgh University, Scotland, May 2001.
• The mating mind: How language evolved for verbal courtship. Darwin@LSE seminar, London School of Economics, England, May, 2001.
• From the mating mind to Darwinian marketing. Friday Evening Discourse, Royal Institution, London, England, March 2001.
• Social-cognitive mechanisms of mate choice: How Brunswik can reconcile Darwin and Galton. Psychology Department Job Talk, University of New Mexico, February 2001.
• De Parende Geest (The mating mind), public lecture, University of Amsterdam, February, 2001
• The mating mind. Talk, Evolutionary psychology group colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, December 2000.
• Sexual selection and sexual motivation. Talk at Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute, November 2000.
• Sexual selection and creativity. Keynote talk, British Academy conference on ‘Evolution and Creativity’, London, England, October 2000.
• How to test further the ideas in ‘The mating mind’. Behavior, Evolution, and Culture colloquium, Anthropology Dept., UCLA, October 2000.
• Mental traits as fitness indicators. Marschack Colloquium, UCLA, October 2000.
• Dimensions of leadership. Talk, The biopsychology of humane leadership conference, Philadelphia, September 2000.
• Mental adaptations as fitness indicators. Talk, ‘Evolution and innateness’ conference, London, England, September 2000.
• Why mental abilities inter-correlate positively in a massively modular mind: Mutations, the g factor, and the G matrix. Talk, Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, June 2000.
• Human nature and conspicuous consumption. Talk, Gruter Institute conference on evolution and business, Squaw Valley, California, June 2000.
• The mating mind. Talk, Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival, England, May 2000.
• Marketing and human nature. Talk, ‘Biology in the Boardroom’ conference, Cambridge University, England, January 2000.
• Evolution in the workplace: Men, women, and business. Talk, ‘A question of balance’ workshop, University of North London, England, January 2000.
• Sexual selection for intelligence-indicators. Talk, Novartis Foundation Symposium ‘The nature of intelligence’, London, England, December, 1999.
• From sexual signalling to social policy: How to make our costly signalling systems work for us – and not vice-versa. Talk, ‘Signs of Quality’ workshop, Institute of Zoology, London, England, December, 1999.
• The evolution of culture. Master's Seminar, Balliol College, Oxford University, England, May 1999.
• Courting minds. Colloquium, Biopsychology Program, City University of New York, March 1999.
• Mental evolution through mate choice. Cognitive Evolution Seminar, University of Reading, England, March 1999.
• Sexual selection and the lexicon: The evolution of vocabulary size through mutual mate choice. Talk, Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, U.C. Davis, June 1998.
• Evolution of equilibrium-selection heuristics. Talk, Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, U.C. Davis, June 1998.
• Did intelligence and language evolve through sexual selection as fitness indicators? Colloquium, Psychology Department, University of Warwick, England, May 1998.
• Evolution of vocabulary size under runaway sexual selection. Talk, Second International Conference on the Evolution of Language, London, England, April 1998.
• Intelligence, language, and consciousness as sexually selected fitness indicators. Colloquium, Biology Department, University of Liverpool, England, March 1998.
• Protean primates: The evolution of adaptive unpredictability in social behaviour and development. Colloquium, Biological Anthropology, University College London, England, January 1998.
• Domain-specific utility functions for mate choice. Talk, ELSE Workshop on the Evolution of Utilities and Utility Functions, University College London, England, December 1997.
• Evolutionary psychology and social psychology. Talk, British Psychological Society Annual Conference on Social Psychology, Sussex, England, September, 1997.
• Evolution of human music through sexual selection. Talk, Conference on Biomusicology, Florence Italy, May 1997.
• Is human mating rational? Talk, British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 1997.
• From genetic algorithms to evolutionary engineering: Technological evolution as self-fulfilling prophecy. Talk, Workshop on Technological Evolution, Oxford, England, January 1997.
• Mate choice. Symposium, Psychology Department, University College London, England, January 1997.
• Courtship and cognition: Why sexual selection favours minds that are conscious, amusing, but deeply fallible. Symposium, Psychology Department, Oxford University, England, November 1996.
• Mate choice: From sexual cues to cognitive adaptations. Talk, Ciba Foundation Symposium on Characterizing psychological adaptations, London, England, October 1996.
• Optimal mate choice: A normative framework for hot cognition. Talk, Third Conference on Thinking, University College London, England, August 1996.
• Protean primates: The evolution of adaptive unpredictability in competition and courtship. Talk, Sixth International Primatological Congress, Madison, Wisconsin, August 1996.
• Mating games. Colloquium, Center for Economic Learning and Social Evolution, University College London, April 1996.
• Cognitive heuristics for mate choice. Talk, Deutsche Forchungsgemeinschaft (DFG) special program on information processing in social context, Bonn, April 1996.
• Cues for mate choice: Darwin, Brunswik, and sexual selection. Talk, T.E.A.P. (German Psychological Society) annual conference, Eichstätt, Germany, March 1996.
• Darwinian demograpics of cultural production. Talk, Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, U. C. Santa Barbara, June 1995.
• Human mate choice: Evolutionary origins and effects of a domain-specific judgment mechanism. Talk, Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich, April 1995.
• Evolution of the human brain through runaway sexual selection. Colloquium, Psychology Department, St. Andrews University, Scotland, November 1994.
• Mental evolution through mate choice. Talk, London School of Economics Philosophy Weekend, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, England, November 1994.
• Protean behavior in dynamic games: The co-evolution of pursuit-evasion tactics in simulated robots. Talk, Simulation of Adaptive Behavior conference, Brighton, England, August 1994.
• Sexual selection and the origins of language. Talk, Conference on the Origins of Language, University of East London, England, July 1994.
• How cognition guides evolution: Sexual selection, protean behavior, and human origins. Colloquium, Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems, New Mexico, June 1994.
• Why is male variance higher than female variance for human mental traits? A sexual selection theory of risk-seeking. Talk, Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, University of Michigan, June 1994.
• Exploiting mate choice in evolutionary computation: Sexual selection as a process of search, optimization, and diversification. Talk, Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior (AISB) Society Workshop on Evolutionary Computing, Leeds University, England, April 1994.
• Order and chaos in human courtship: The interplay of ritualization and proteanism in runaway sexual selection for culture. Talk, Conference on Ritual and the Origins of Culture, University College London, England, March 1994.
• Mental evolution through mate choice. Darwin Seminar, London School of Economics, England, March 1994.
• Evolution of the human brain through runaway sexual selection. Talk, Primate Society of Great Britain Annual Conference, London, England, December 1993.
• New methods for evolutionary computer simulation: Applications in research and teaching. Tutorial, Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, SUNY-Binghampton, New York, August 1993.
• Human perceptual adaptations for entraining, tracking, and predicting animate motion. Talk, Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, SUNY-Binghampton, New York, August 1993.
• Evolution of the human brain through runaway sexual selection. Seminar, Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 1993.
• Evolution of the human brain through runaway sexual selection. Talk, Conference on Evolution and the Human Sciences, London School of Economics, England, June 1993.
• Evolution of the human brain through runaway sexual selection. Experimental Psychology/Biology Joint Colloquium, University of Sussex, England, May 1993.
• The human brain as a courtship device: Hominid encephalization through runaway sexual selection. Colloquium, Dept. Human Genetics, University College London, England, January 1993.
• Natural versus sexual selection in hominid encephalization: Towards a model of psychological selection for protean intelligence. Talk, Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, Albuquerque, July 1992.
• Evolution of the human mind through runaway sexual selection for protean behavior. Colloquium, Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, July 1992.
• Computer simulations of sexual selection and speciation. Talk, Monterey Biocomputation Workshop, Monterey, California, June 1992.
• Sexual and social selection for human psychological adaptations: From Machiavellian intelligence to Protean intelligence. Talk, American Psychological Society conference, San Diego, California, June 1992.
• Evolution without natural selection: Sexual selection for speciation and learning. Talk, Artificial Life III Conference, Santa Fe, NM, June 1992.
• Psychological proteanism: Adaptive variability and the evolution of human mental adaptations. Colloquium, Evolution and Human Behavior Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1991.
• Psychological proteanism. Talk, Cognition and Perception Area Group, University of Michigan Psychology Dept., Ann Arbor, October, 1991.
• Psychological proteanism: Evolutionary arms races between prediction and evasion, and their implications for a sexual-selective account of the emergence of the human mind. Talk, Human Behavior and Evolution Society Third Annual Conference, Hamilton, Ontario, August 1991.
• On the sympatric origin of species: Mercurial mating in the Quicksilver Model. Talk, Fourth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, San Diego, July 1991.
• Evolutionary approaches to Artificial Life: Themes, issues, and dilemmas. Talk, Fourth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, San Diego, July 1991.
• Psychological proteanism: Distinguishing adaptive variability from behavioral noise. Talk, Western Psychological Association annual conference, San Francisco, California, April 1991.
• The emergence of evolutionary psychology. Address, Western Psychological Association annual conference, San Francisco, California, April 1991.
• Adaptively unpredictable Behavior: Theory and simulations. Colloquium, Institut für Psychologie, Universität Salzburg, Austria, October, 1990.
• Evolutionary principles for design and modelling of adaptive agents. Talk, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature Conference, Dortmund, Germany, October 1990.
• Genetic algorithms and neural networks. Colloquium, Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, St. Augustine, Germany, October, 1990.
• Exploring adaptive agency: Simulating the evolution of associative learning. Talk, Simulation of Adaptive Behavior conference, September 1990, Paris, France.
• A century of stasis: The scandal of function-agnostic psychology. Talk, Human Behavior and Evolution Society Second Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, August 1990.
• Finalist, Best Paper by Young Investigator Competition. A general framework for the evolution of adaptive simulated creatures. Talk, Artificial Life II conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 1990.

Reviewing

On the editorial boards of the journals:

• Intelligence, 2007 – present.
• Evolutionary Psychology, 2006 – present.
• Human Nature, 2003 – 2006.

Ad hoc reviewer for Adaptive Behavior, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biology Letters, BioSystems, British Journal of Social Psychology, Comprehensive Psychiatry, European Journal of Social Psychology, Evolution and Human Behavior, Human Nature, Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Sports Sciences, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, Personality and Individual Differences, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Psychological Review, Review of General Psychology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Theory in Psychology.

Reviewed book proposals for Oxford U. Press, Cambridge U. Press, MIT Press, etc. Program committee, Simulation of Adaptive Behavior conferences, 1994 through 1998.

Consulting

• Consulting with Procter & Gamble on consumer psychology, 2007.
• Consulting with Coca-Cola on consumer psychology, 2006.
• Consulting for David DeAngelo Communications on human mate choice, 2005.
• Consulting with Passions and Partners, a London-based business consultancy, on marketing issues, 2004-2005.
• Consulting with Vulcan Inc., March 2002.
• Development of an agent-based simulation of consumer decision-making in grocery stores for Sainsbury’s (British grocery chain), July 1999 - August 2000.
• Consultant and conference speaker, Knowledge Group, Logistics Department, Sainsbury’s October 1998.
  

Current Graduate Lab Members

	Student/Research Interests
	Laura Dane Cognitive sex differences, ovulatory cycle effects on female mate choice, mate choice for hands & forearms as hormone-markers, 2D:4D digit ratio as a hormone-marker
	Christopher Jenkins The psychology of music, rhythmic performance and synchronization, cognitive ability and individual differences, evolutionary signaling theory.
	Joshua Tybur Disgust, moral judgment, behavioral endocrinology, psychometrics, and quantitative methods.
	Ann Caldwell Evolutionary health psychology, exercise, diet, adolescent depression among hunter-gatherers

Yann Klimentidis, anthropology: Interests in genetic and phenotypic markers of ethnic ancestry, mate choice based on ancestry cues, facial attractiveness judgments: yann@unm.edu

Gil Greengross, statistics: Interests in the psychology of self-deprecating humor, humor as a mental fitness indicator: gili@unm.edu

Ethan White, psychology: Interests in intelligence as a fitness indicator, relational frame theory, behavior analysis, evolution and learning: ethanw@unm.edu

Paul Hooper, anthropology: Interests in status, intra-sexual competition, mutual mate choice: phooper@unm.edu

For more information on the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences (HEBS) graduate training network at UNM, see our website at: www.unm.edu/~HEBS/.

Other academic/science links:
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin: [Link]
Darwin at LSE, London: [Link]
Edge: [Link]
Evolution and Human Behavior journal: [Link]
Evolutionary Psychology journal: [Link]
Human Behavior and Evolution Society: [Link]
Human Nature journal: [Link]
Intelligence journal: [Link]
New Scientist magazine: [Link]
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason: [Link]

Other links reflecting my personal interests:
Adbusters: [Link]
Arts & Letters Daily: [Link]
BBC News: [Link]
Chuck Palahniuk: [Link]
Cognitive Liberty: [Link]
Control Arms: [Link]
Humanism: [Link]
Iain Banks: [Link]
IMDB: [Link]
Moloko: [Link]
NAMI: [Link]
NASA: [Link]
Slow Food: [Link]
Tori Amos: [Link]
Yes Men: [Link]