Ryan Nichols – Lineage Fitness Theory and the Lineage Manipulation and Mutualism Mechanism: Bridging Evolutionary Social Sciences & Cultural Evolution

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Lineage Fitness Theory and the Lineage Manipulation and Mutualism Mechanism: Bridging Evolutionary Social Sciences & Cultural Evolution Ryan Nichols Department of Philosophy, California State University Fullerton Lineage fitness theory aims to improve integration of cultural evolution with evolutionary psychological and social sciences by explaining the onset and maintenance of key traditions as products of gene-culture […]

Mike Frank – Bridging the data gap between children and AI models

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Bridging the data gap between children and AI models Mike Frank Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology, Stanford University Large language and language-vision models show intriguing emergent behaviors, yet they receive at least three to four – and sometimes as much as six – orders of magnitude more language data than human children. What accounts for […]

Daniel L. Bowling – Music and Health: Biological Foundations and Applications *Rescheduled from 1/13/25*

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Music and Health: Biological Foundations and Applications Daniel L. Bowling Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) Every day, hundreds of millions of people turn to music to regulate their mood, take pleasure, and socialize. […]