Joan Silk – The origins of prosocial preferences
Joan Silk: UCLA Department of AnthropologyHumans differ from most other animals, and from virtually all other primates, in the extent of our dependence on cooperation. In humans, altruism seems to […]
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Peter Richerson – The Role of Religion in Human Cooperation: Experiments Using Economic Games
Peter Richerson: UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and PolicyReligion is often held to play a large, even dominant, role in supporting human cooperation. Much variation in propensities to cooperate […]
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Dario Maestripieri – Biological bases of caregiver attachment
Dario Maestripieri: University of Chicago Department of Comparative Human DevelopmentIn human and nonhuman primates, caregiver attachment is a motivational/ behavioral system that promotes the maintenance of proximity between a caregiver […]
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Rob Boyd – Reciprocity is not sufficient to explain human cooperation
Rob Boyd: UCLA Department of AnthropologyRecent discussions of human cooperation assume that the theory reciprocal altruism provides an established explanation for human cooperation, and that therefore, alternative explanations invoking cultural […]
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Wendy Saltzman – Endocrinology of Female Reproductive Competition in Cooperatively Breeding Marmoset Monkeys
Wendy Saltzman: UC Riverside Department of BiologyCommon marmosets are cooperatively breeding monkeys that exhibit high female reproductive skew: typically only a single, dominant female breeds successfully in each social group. […]
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Alex Mesoudi – Towards a unified science of cultural evolution: A brief theoretical background and some experimental examples
Alex Mesoudi: University of British Columbia W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied EthicsA Darwinian theory of cultural evolution holds that the same fundamental principles that govern biological change – variation, […]
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Pascal Boyer – Why do patients and religious people perform rituals?
Pascal Boyer: Washington University Department of PsychologyRitualized behavior is found in children's typical development, as well as in the pathology of OCD and in cultural ceremonies. Pierrre Lienard and I […]
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Karl Sigmund – Between freedom and enforcement: public goods and costly punishment
Karl Sigmund: University of Vienna Department of MathematicsA considerable body of theoretical and empirical evidence underlines the important role of punishment in stabilising high contributions to joint enterprises. But how […]
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Susan Carey – The Origin of Concepts: The Case of Natural Number
Susan Carey: Harvard Department of PsychologyI make two non-controversial assumptions about human conceptual understanding. First, it is built from a shared set of developmental primitives--the representational resources bequeathed to all […]
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Bernard Comrie – Vertical and horizontal transmission of language structure
Bernard Comrie: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Linguistics & UC Santa Barbara Department of LinguisticsAn understanding of the transmission of language across time requires reference to both […]