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5th
European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference which was held at the University of Wroclaw, POLAND from Thursday 25 to Saturday 27 March 2010 is now over.  The conference gathered over 160 attendees from 25 countries and the largest group represented people from UK (65 attendees). During the conference, apart from 6 plenary talks,  42 talks and 65 posters were presented.

European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference Scientific Committee distinguished  Lisa deBruine  for the best rated abstract of the presentation entitled “The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences: Cross-cultural variation in women’s preferences for masculine men” . The prize for the Best Student Talk from all conference attendees went to  Shakti Lamba for the presentation entitled “Demography and ecology drive variation in cooperation across human populations” and the prize for the Best Poster to Anke Bullinger for  poster entitled “Chimpanzees’ Coordination in a “Stag Hunt” Game”. Congratulation to all winners!!!

Our special thank goes to plenary speakers: dr Alexandra Alvergne (University of Sheffield, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, UK), prof. Josep Call (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), prof. Ernst Fehr (Institute for Empirical Research for Economics, University of Zurich), prof. Daniel Fessler (Department of Anthropology, University of California), prof. Stephen Shennan (Institute of Archaeology, University College London) and  prof. Eckart Voland (Center for Philosophy and Foundations of Science, University of Giessen) for six hours of outstanding and inspiring lectures.
We also thank to all presentation and poster authors and conference attendees for their brilliant  scientific  contribution to the Conference Programme and for creating exceptional scientific and social atmosphere of the Conference. We hope to meet you all at the next EHBEA Conference !!!!

Special thank goes also to the Conference sponsors: Galton Institute, UK, Lower Silesian Voivodship Marshal, and Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics from the University of Wroclaw for their generous financial support of the Conference.


Organizing Committee of 5th EHBEA Conference
Boguslaw Pawlowski (Conference Organizer) 1,2, Dariusz Danel1, Stanislaw Gronkiewicz1, Slawomir Koziel1 Monika Krzyzanowska2, Monika Lopuszanska1, Alicja Szklarska1, Agnieszka Tomaszewska2, Anna Ziomkiewicz1

The 5th EHBEA Conference organizers

(1) Institute of Anthropology
Polish Academy of Sciences

2) Department of Anthropology 
University of Wroclaw
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