Just over a year ago, ISHE held its most recent summer institute in Boise, Idahoe. The meeting was hosted wonderfully by John Ziker, who made us feel welcome in the potato capital. The scientific program and so much more were handled by our president Craig Roberts with the help of past president Tom Alley and the program committee. Their combined efforts made for a inspiring and fun meeting.The main speakers, Elisabeth Cashdan on sex differences in spatial behaviour and spatial cognition, Colin Hendrie on ethology, psychology and embracing the "return to nature", and Randy Thornhill on the parasite-stress theory of cultural values and sociality represented the breadth of the sciences of evolved human behavior. The workshop on ethological methods has already been documented in a special issue in HEB with contributions by all presenters. This special issue reflects the challenges observing humans brings about and highlights the different ways one can approach the subject methodologically.