Upcoming Presentation

Chimp Empire - A Screening and Panel Discussion with the Filmmakers Featuring Sara Edelson Manager of Original Documentary Programming, Netflix James Reed Director, Chimp Empire John Mitani Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Michigan moderated by Clark Barrett Professor, UCLA Department of Anthropology and Director, UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution and Culture and Abigail Bigham Associate […]

To Save Humankind, Kill Off the Hero’s Journey of Human Evolution Holly Dunsworth University of Rhode Island In 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 […]

Patricia Greenfield Distinguished Professor, UCLA Department of Psychology Associate, Harvard Department of Human Evolutionary Biology A Theoretical and Empirical Approach to Cultural Evolution: Intergenerational Transmission, Cognition, and Creativity For 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 […]