Prof. Joan Silk from Arizona State University will be at Indiana University, Bloomington on Thursday, November 15 to deliver a lecture on “What are friends for? The adaptive value of social bonds.” Prof. Silk’s research concerns the role of competition and conflict among primates and the importance of social bonds in negotiating a complex, competitive social environment. She has examined grooming patterns and their relationship to coalition formation, the role of reconciliation in primate societies, and factors that influence female reproductive success.
This is a free, public lecture, beginning at 5:30 pm in the Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union. The event is part of the Primate Behavior Speaker Series, more information for which can be found athttp://themester.indiana.edu/events/primate.shtml. This speaker series is co-sponsored by the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior and the College of Arts and Science’s Themester. Please direct any questions to Dr. Michael Muehlenbein (mpm1@indiana.edu) or Dr. Kevin Hunt (kdhunt@indiana.edu).
• TIME: 5:30 p.m.
• WHERE: Indiana Memorial Union, Whittenberger Auditorium, 900 E. Seventh St., Bloomington.