Speaker Series
The Origins of Human Uniqueness speaker series is designed to explore the emergence of human characteristics that have led Homo sapiens to become a spectacular anomaly among living organisims.
The series launched October 20, 2008, with a lecture by Robert Boyd — the theoretical father of gene-culture coevolution — and continues through 2010. See the calendar below for upcoming offerings. Some lecture details are yet to be determined.
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Date/Time/Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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September 24, 2009 |
Joe Henrich, |
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| October 14, 2009 4:45 p.m.; SHESC 340 |
Peter Richerson,
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Experimental Research on Cultural Transmission |
| November 19, 2009 7 p.m.; SCOB 210 (a free alumni & faculty reception will be held at 6 p.m. in ISTB-1 401; reservations requested by November 17 at http://www.asu.edu/alumni/origins or by calling 480-965-6215) |
John Mitani,
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| February 18, 2010 4:30 p.m.; location TBA |
Stephen Shennan,
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Cultural Phylogenies and the Relationship between Social Interaction and Cultural Complexities |
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February 22, 2010 |
Sam Bowles,
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A Cooperative Species: How Humans Came to be Both Nasty and Nice |
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March 4, 2010 |
Kevin Laland,
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Animal Social Learning and the Evolution of Culture |
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September 16, 2010 |
Ernst Fehr, |
Ultimate Origins of Human Prosocial Behavior: An Empirical Test of Competing Explanations |
