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In today's lab meeting, we'll hear two short talks: Bahar Behroozi Why we should consider epigenetic as a factor in cultural evolution studies? Ben Enke (Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard) Agri-Culture, Kinship, and Cooperation "I will talk about...

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First this week, we'll hear from Yazeed Awwad, who will be discussing Boolean network models of cultural evolution. Yazeed is currently a grad student at the MIT Media Lab, where he's focusing on data sciences and visualization. Toward a Boolean Network...

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During the first half of lab meeting, Kevin Hong will present on the following: " Most evolutionary studies on contemporary homo sapiens have focused on using adaptations to ancestral environment to explain why humans are the way they are. However, in...

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This week, Hyejin Youn will join us in lab meeting. Hyejin is an Assistant Professor in the Kellog School of Management at Northwestern University. Lost and found in translation: the universal structure of human lexical semantics Hyejin Youn How universal...

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This week, lab member Kevin Hong will present his work from a summer in the field with the Mosuo of southwestern China. Resource allocation and imitation in a Chinese matrilineal society The mosuo population in southwestern China has been intensively...

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Thomas Talhelm will give a talk. Topic TBA.

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Our post-doc Anke Becker will give a presentation on her ongoing work on pastoralism and female status. On the one hand, she will explore to what extent pastoralism is conducive to and associated with low female status in pre-industrial societies. On the...

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For our first lab meeting of the semester, we'll hear two short talks. First, our post-doc Martin Lang will give a talk titled "Anxiety and Ritual Behavior: Testing the Relationship between Anxiety and Predictable Behavioral Patterns". Here is an abstract...

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*Note: this week we will meet in Peabody 560* Joseph Dexter (PhD student in the Systems Biology Program) Quantitative Criticism and the Cultural Evolution of Literature The digitization of large corpora of natural language texts has resulted in an...

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Tommy Flint How to understand the cultural brain of hunter gatherers? "Recent work has sought to assess the extent to which tribal population size and environmental risk are distinct drivers of technological complexity among hunter gatherers. We're...