Arrival in Erice - After dinner reception at the marsala room (San Rocco)
Wednesday 20, April
09:00-09:20 - Welcome by the Directors of The International School of Ethology, Stefano Parmigiani and Paola Palanza
09:20-09:40 - Martin Brüne (Ruhr University, Germany)
: Introduction to the Workshop
Opening lecture
09:40-10:40 - Daniel R. Wilson (Western University, USA)
: Darwin in Medicine: Medicine in Darwin (online)
10:40-11:10 - coffee break
Session #1
11:10-12:10 - Paola Palanza (University of Parma, Italy)
: The influence of human evolution on health and disease
12:10-13:10 - Alessia Nava (University of Kent, UK)
: Modelling the evolution of the mother-infant dyad in ancient human populations
13:10-15:30 - Lunch break
Session #2
15:30-16:30 - Philipp Mitteroecker (Universit of Wien, Austria)
: The evolution of human childbirth and obstructed labor
16:30-17:00 - coffee break
17:00-18:00 - Graham Rook (University College London, UK)
: A Darwinian reformulation of the “Hygiene Hypothesis”
Short Presentations (online)
18:00-18:20 - O.A. Altinok: Evolutionary medicine at the face of multiple environment of evolutionary adaptedness based on epigenetic inheritance mechanisms
18:30-18:40 - C. Pesca (poster presentation): The relationship between child maltreatment, heart rate variability, and non-verbal behaviour
Thursday 21, April
Session #3
09:00-10:00 - Frank Rühli (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
: Evolutionary Medicine: Contributions to present and future global challenges
10:00-11:00 - Paola Romagnani (University of Florence, IT)
: The kidney between adaptation and injury across evolution (online)
11:00-11:30 - coffee break
Short Presentations
11:30-11:50 - Adam Hunt: Evobiopsychosocial medicine
11:50-12:10 - Gillian Pepper: Perceived extrinsic mortality risk and health behaviour: an example of how evolutionary thinking can guide public health communications
12:10-12:30 - M. Gigante - Age-at-menarche estimate from human mineralised tissues: a bioarchaeological perspective (online)
Lunch
12:30-15:00 - lunch break
Session #4
15:00-16:00 - James De Gregori (University of Colorado, USA)
: Aging, somatic evolution and cancer – the inexorable link
16:00-17:00 - Richard Bribiescas (Yale University, USA)
: Evolutionary and Life History perspectives on health and aging in men (online)
17:00-17:30 - coffee break
17:30-18:30 - Caroline Blanchard (University of Hawaii, USA)
: Sexual selection and Sex differences in disease vulnerability (online)
Friday 22, April
Session #5
09:00-10:00 - Gerhard Medicus (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
: Theory of Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy
10:00-11:00 - Alfonso Troisi (University of Rome-Tor Vergata, Italia)
: Evolutionary Psychiatry and the search for brain lesions: Why the Holy Grail is just wishful thinking
11:00-11:30 - coffee break
11:30-12:30 - Martin Brune (Ruhr University, Germany)
: Maladaptive consequences of early childhood adversity
12:30-13:30 - General discussion and conclusive remarks