Indicative topics (subject to minor revision; lectures are 1 hour each):
Lecture 1 and 2: Introduction to evolutionary theory - What is evolution, 4 evolutionary forces, components of natural selection, levels of explanation (proximate v ultimate), relative v absolute fitness, human origins, adaptations, Tinbergen's four questions.
Lecture 3, 4 and 5: Intimate relationships - Mate choice, sexual selection, mating strategies, costly signalling, fitness indicators.
Lecture 6 and 7: Thinking - Reasoning, learning, language, problem-solving, EEA, theory of mind, Social Brain Hypothesis, intelligence, runaway brain, language, creativity & art.
Lecture 8: Personality and individual differences - Social niches, polymorphisms, developmental plasticity, frequency-dependent selection, tit-for-tat and related forms.
Lecture 9 and 10: Cooperation and altruism - Levels of selection, multilevel selection, reciprocity, indirect reciprocity, strong reciprocity, costly signalling theory, social exchange, cheater detection, evolutionary game theory.
Lecture 11 and 12: Parenting and kinship - Parental investment, conflict between the sexes, inclusive fitness, kinship, incest avoidance and Westermarck effect.
Lecture 13 and 14: Emotions - Role of emotions, emotions & cognition, disease & disgust, incest & disgust, depression, jealousy.
Lecture 15 and 16: Aggression, violence, warfare and terrorism - Status, prestige, and dominance hierarchies, relatedness and aggression, sex differences in aggression, group conflicts, territoriality, reconciliation.
Lecture 17 and 18: Darwinian medicine - Evolution and health, mismatch between environment and us, evolution of virulence & how humans affect this, pregnancy sickness, how humans interfere with evolution's hard work - Fever & Iron supplements.
Lecture 19 and 20: Culture evolved - Nature/nurture, gene-environment interactions, cultural evolution, human behavioural ecology, cultural capacity as a trait.
Lecture 15 & 16: Aggression, violence, warfare and terrorism - Status, prestige, and dominance hierarchies, relatedness and aggression, sex differences in aggression, group conflicts, territoriality, reconciliation.
Lecture 17 & 18: Darwin medicine - Evolution and health, mismatch between environment and us, evolution of virulence & how humans affect this, pregnancy sickness, how humans interfere with evolution's hard work - Fever & Iron supplements.
Lecture 19 & 20: Culture - Nature/nurture, gene-environment interactions, cultural evolution, human behavioural ecology, cultural capacity as a trait.