The Extension of Biology Through Culture
Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the
National Academies of Sciences and Engineering
http://www.thebeckmancenter.org/
Distinctive Voices @ The Beckman Center
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Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 10:01 PM
To: Aviva Lev-Ari <AvivaLev-Ari@alum.berkeley.edu>
Subject: RSVP NOW for Science Lecture – October 12
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November 16, 2016 Evolution of Biology Through Culture Andrew Whiten University of St. Andrews |
The Extension of Biology Through Culture
Organized by Marcus Feldman, Francisco J. Ayala, Andrew Whiten and Kevin Laland
November 16-17, 2016
Nov 15 6:30 PM Speaker Welcome Dinner at hotel (informal – no program)
Wednesday, November 16
7:30 AM Bus departs Hotel for Beckman Center
7:30 AM Registration and Buffet Breakfast, Beckman Center Dining Room
Session I
8:30 AM Welcome Remarks, Marcus Feldman, Stanford University
9:00 AM Evolution and revolution in cetacean vocal culture: lessons from humpback whale song, Ellen Garland, University of St Andrews, UK
9:50 AM Gene-culture coevolution in whales and dolphins, Hal Whitehead, Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
10:40 AM Break
11:00 AM Cultural legacies: unpacking the inter-generational transmission of information in birds,
Lucy Aplin, University of Oxford, UK
11:50 AM What evolves in the evolution of social learning? A social insect perspective, Elli
Leadbeater, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
12:40 PM Buffet Lunch, Beckman Center Dining Room
Session II
1:50 PM Can culture re-shape the evolution of learning and how?, Arnon Lotem, Tel Aviv
University
2:40 PM What long term field studies reveal of primate traditions, Susan Perry, University of
California, Los Angeles
3:30 PM Break (set up posters)
4:00 PM Can we identify a primate signature in social learning? Dorothy Fragaszy, University of
Georgia
4:50 PM The evolution of primate intelligence, Kevin Laland, University of St Andrews, UK
5:40 PM Poster Session and Buffet Dinner (Sackler registrants)
7:00 PM Distinctive Voices Public Lecture
How animal cultures extend the scope of biology: Tradition and learning from apes to whales to bees, Andrew Whiten, University of St Andrews, UK
8:00 PM Dessert and Coffee with combined audience
8:45 PM Bus departs Beckman Center for Hotel
Thursday, November 17
7:00 AM Bus departs Fairmont Newport Beach Hotel for Beckman Center
7:00 AM Buffet Breakfast, Beckman Center Dining Room
Session III
8:00 AM The role of cultural innovations, learning processes, and ecological dynamics in
shaping Middle Stone Age cultural adaptations, Francesco d’Errico, University of Bordeaux, France
8:50 AM The ontogenetic foundations of cumulative cultural transmission, Cristine Legare, University of Texas, Austin
9:40 AM Break
10:00 AM “I don’t know”: ignorance and question-asking as engines for cognitive development,
Paul Harris, Harvard University
10:50 AM Childhood as simulated annealing: How wide hypothesis exploration in an extended
childhood contributes to cultural learning, Alison Gopnik, University of California, Berkeley
11:40 AM Buffet Lunch, Beckman Center Dining Room
Session IV
12:50 PM How language shapes the nature of cultural inheritance, Susan Gelman, University of Michigan
1:40 PM Big data and prospects for an evolutionary science of human history, Russel Gray, Max
Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany
2:30 PM Break
2:50 PM Cultural Evolutionary Psychology, Cecilia Heyes, University of Oxford, UK
3:40 PM Ongoing prospects for a unified science of cultural evolution, Alex Mesoudi, University of Exeter, UK
4:30 PM Concluding Remarks, Francisco J. Ayala, University of California, Irvine
4:45 PM Bus departs Beckman Center for Orange County Airport and Hotel
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From: Marcus W Feldman <mfeldman@stanford.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 12:16 PM
To: Aviva Lev-Ari <AvivaLev-Ari@alum.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Fwd: Sackler program for Irvine:11/16-17
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