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SUMMARY:Patricia Greenfield
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Greenfield\nDistinguished Professor\, UCLA Department of Psychology\nAssociate\, Harvard Department of Human Evolutionary Biology\nA Theoretical and Empirical Approach to Cultural Evolution: Intergenerational Transmission\, Cognition\, and Creativity\nFor the theoretical approach\, I will present my multilevel theory of ecological change\, cultural evolution\, and human development. For the empirical evidence\, I will report findings from longitudinal study of a Zinacantec Maya community in Chiapas\, Mexico over a span of 43 years. This research has explored the intergenerational transmission of weaving\, cognitive development\, and creativity in three generations of mothers and children. From Generation 1 to Generation 2\, the main ecological change was the transition from subsistence agriculture to money and commerce. From Generation 2 to Generation 3\, the main ecological change was from informal education at home to formal education at school. In the domain of intergenerational transmission\, the first shift created more independent weaving learners; the second shift created more school-like transmission of weaving technique. Both ecological shifts moved cognition towards greater abstraction and creativity towards greater innovation. These ecological shifts also produced cultural losses: Fewer girls learning to weave on a backstrap loom\, less detail-oriented visual representation\, and the declining importance of traditional\, community-wide woven patterns. The processes of cultural evolution identified in this Maya community are similar to cultural shifts going on in many communities around the world\, communities have transitioned from subsistence ecologies to commercial\, urbanized\, and technologically more sophisticated environments.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/patricia_greenfield_a_theoretical_and_empirical_approach_to_cultural_evolution/
LOCATION:352 Haines Hall
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SUMMARY:Holly Dunsworth - To Save Humankind\, Kill Off the Hero’s Journey of Human Evolution
DESCRIPTION:To Save Humankind\, Kill Off the Hero’s Journey of Human Evolution\nHolly Dunsworth\nUniversity of Rhode Island\nIn Narratives of Human Evolution\, Misia Landau revealed that late 19th and early 20th century fathers of human evolutionary theory\, including Charles Darwin\, unconsciously conformed their stories to the key structural elements of Russian folktales. Dunsworth argues that the enduring habit—within science\, academia\, and throughout popular culture—of projecting a hero’s journey onto lineages that blend and weave across deep time is fundamental to the perpetuation of untrue patriarchal and racist reconstructions of human origins and human nature\, which we continue to enact to our peril\, and to the planet’s. In this presentation\, Dunsworth breaks down the hero’s journey into its parts and compares them to contemporary human evolutionary biology. In the end\, the hero’s journey does not triumph. This presentation is based on a chapter in Dunsworth’s upcoming book (Viking/Penguin\, 2025).
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/holly-dunsworth-to-save-humankind/
LOCATION:352 Haines Hall
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