DySoC Webinar Series, Spring 2021 Join us for a series of 12 open webinars on Human Origins and Cultural Evolution: Celebrating the 150th anniversary of The Descent of Man Registration: http://www.dysoc.org/dom_webinars Contact: Sergey Gavrilets, [email protected]
Joe Henrich Feb. 2 Harvard University 12:15 p.m. EST The secret of our success
Marta Lahr Feb. 9 University of Cambridge, UK 11:45 a.m. EST An extended origin: climate, populations and palimpsests in the evolution of Homo sapiens
Johannes Krause Feb. 16 Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany 11:45 a.m. EST The genetic history of the plague: What we learn from ancient pandemics
Chris Stringer Feb. 23 Natural History Museum, London 11:45 a.m. EST What is Homo sapiens?
Polly Wiessner Mar. 2 Arizona State University 11:45 a.m. EST The embers of society: Firelight talk among the Ju/'hoansi Bushmen
Michael Muthukrishna Mar. 9 London School of Economics 12:15 p.m. EST Cultural brain hypothesis, collective brains, and the evolution of intelligence
Louise Barrett Mar. 16 University of Lethbridge, Alberta 11:45 a.m. EDT Thinking outside the head: Cognitive ecologies and evolutionary psychology
Sarah Mathew Mar. 23 Arizona State University 11:45 a.m. EDT War and peace: The cultural evolution of large-scale conflict and cooperation
Fiona Jordan Mar. 30 University of Bristol, UK 11:45 a.m. EDT 'A subject too large and complex' for Darwin: The cultural evolution of kinship terminology
Manvir Singh Apr. 6 Institute for Advanced Studies, Toulouse 11:45 a.m. EDT Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Challenging the nomadic-egalitarian model
Thomas Currie University of Exeter, UK Apr. 13 The descent of rules: 11:45 a.m. EDT Investigating the cultural evolution and ecology of institutions
Maria Lapinski Apr. 20 Michigan State University 11:15 a.m. EDT Communicating cultural and social norms