CULTURAL TRANSMISSION STUDIES: TREE AND NETWORK MODELS OF MICRO- AND MACROEVOLUTION

Gontier, Nathalie

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Reviewed By: Evolutionary Anthropology Society

Thursday, November 15, 2012: 8:00 AM-9:45 AM

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students, Those involved in mentoring activities

Organizers: Nathalie Gontier (Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon) and Emanuele Serrelli (University of Milano Bicocca and Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, Centre for Philosophy of Science)

Chairs: Nathalie Gontier (Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon) and Larissa Mendoza Straffon (Leiden University)

8:00 AM

The ‘Global Phylogeny’ and Its History: A Critical Appraisal of a Unifiedtheory of Human Biological and Linguistic Co-Evolution

Frank Kressing (Ulm University)

8:15 AM

The Challenge of Tree-Thinking and Network-Thinking: Conceptual Issues Across Biological and Cultural Domains

Emanuele Serrelli (University of Milano Bicocca and Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, Centre for Philosophy of Science)

8:30 AM

Comparing Rates of Cultural Change Across Trees – Do Some Traits Evolve Faster Than Others?

Ruth Mace (London, Oxfordshire)

8:45 AM

Phylogeographic Approaches to Tracing Human Cultural Ancestry