Peter Fashing: CSU Fullerton Department of AnthropologyGiven that animal societies represent a collection of genetically selfish individuals that have come together to live and reproduce as part of a group, conflicts over the allocation of resources essential to survival and reproduction must routinely occur. For groups to remain stable over evolutionary time, these conflicts must […]

Russell Gray: University of Auckland Department of PsychologyCurrent debates about “Darwinizing culture” have typically focused on the validity of memetics. In this talk I will argue that meme-like inheritance is not a necessary requirement for descent with modification and suggest that an alternative, and more productive, way of Darwinizing culture can be found in the […]

Peter Kim: USC Department of Management and Organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern CaliforniaThroughout history, people have faced the question of how best to respond to a wide range of alleged and/or actual transgressions. A fundamental uncertainty, in this regard, is whether our reactions to such transgressions would differ depending on whether we […]