Evolution and Culture
Colloquium Series
This Winter Term series, co-sponsored by the
Culture and Cognition Program and the Evolution
and Human Adaptation Program, will deal with the constraints placed
on culture by evolution and the ways in which culture affects evolution.
Colloquia are held at 10:30 on Friday mornings
in room 4448 East Hall – except as noted below. A seminar on Evolution
and Culture (Psychology 808-010) will be taught in conjunction with the
series. The seminar meets from 9:00-10:30 on Fridays in room 3048 East
Hall.
January 6
Altruistic Terrorism
Scott Atran
Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan
National Center for Scientific Research, Paris
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January 13
Gamefish Culture, Intergroup Conflict and Environment
Douglas Medin
Professor, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
Director of Program in Culture, Language and Cognition
CO-Director of Program in Cognitive Studies of the Environment
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January 20
Our Inner Ape: Human Nature as Seen by a Primatologist
Frans de Waal
C. H. Candler Professor, Psychology Department
Emory University
Director: Living Links Center
Note: talk will be held at RACKHAM AMPHITHEATER at
10:30
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January 27
The Folk Psychology of Souls
Jesse Bering
Department of Psychology
University of Arkansas
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February 3
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Daniel Dennett
Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy
Tufts University
Note: talk will be held at RACKHAM AMPHITHEATER AT
10:30
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February 10
The Cultural Origins of Human Sociality: Phylogenetic, Ontogenetic and
Cross-cultural Evidence
Joseph Henrich
Department of Anthropology
Emory University
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February 17
Native Peoples of Siberia: Genetics, Languages and Archaeology
-- CANCELLED due to illness
Tatiana Karafet
Assistant Research Scientist
University of Arizona and
Senior Research Scientist
Institute of Cytology and Genetics
Novosibirsk, Russia
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March 17
Explaining Religion
Harvey Whitehouse
Professor of Anthropology
Director, Institute of Cognition and Culture
Queens University, Belfast, Ireland
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March 24
Evolution, Altruism and Ethics
Stephen P. Stich
Board of Governors Professor
Department of Philosophy
& Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University
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March 31
Does Evolutionary theory Explain Dogon Culture?
Beverly Strassmann
Department of Anthropology
Research Center for Group Dynamics
University of Michigan
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April 7
Not By Genes Alone: How Culture
Transformed Human Evolution
Peter Richerson
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
University of California , Davis
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April 14
Death and the Ancestors in Madagascar:
a Cognitive Developmental Approach
Rita Astuti
Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics
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