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Susan Perry – Social learning about foraging strategies in wild capuchin monkeys.

Susan Perry: UCLA AnthropologyWhite-faced capuchin monkeys are best known for their innovation and traditions in the domain of social communication; however, social learning appears to play a role in the acquisition of their foraging techniques as well. In this talk, I explore several lines of evidence indicating social influence in food processing techniques. Several foods […]

Gary Marcus – Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind

Gary Marcus: NYU PsychologyIn fields ranging from reasoning to linguistics, the idea of humans as perfect, rational, optimal creatures is making a comeback – but should it be? Hamlet’s musings that the mind was “noble in reason ...infinite in faculty” have their counterparts in recent scholarly claims that the mind consists of an “accumulation of […]