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The dynamics of law-making: A world history
2018-12-06
Researchers at CEK have published a book on the world history of laws, giving a concrete and comprehensive example of cultural dynamics in action.
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SU plays a key role in a growing research field on cultural change
2018-10-23
A study shows that the Centre for Cultural Evolution has a central role in a growing interdisciplinary field studying cultural change.
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Why are humans so different from other animals?
2018-09-06
Why do humans drive cars and not chimpanzees? What explanations can be found in our prehistory? Watch a short introduction to our research programme on evolutionary transitions in humans.
- Thinking about thinking 2018-03-19 Watch the presentations from an interdisciplinary two-day symposium on thinking in humans and other animals – what it is, how it works, how it evolved, and what sets human thinking apart from animal thinking.
Seminars and events
- 22 Jan CANCELLED: Cultural Evolution Seminar: Great apes and ravens plan without thinking Johan Lind, CEK, on newly developed learning models.
- 22 Jan Cultural Evolution Seminar: Belief System Networks Mark Brandt from Tilburg University will conceptualise and analyse attitudes and identities as interactive nodes in a belief system network.
New publications
- What can associative learning do for planning?
- The Dynamics of Law-Making : A World History
- Behavioral constraints and the evolution of faithful social learning
- An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Imaging
- Pitfalls in Spatial Modelling of Ethnocentrism : A Simulation Analysis of the Model of Hammond and Axelrod
- Stakeholder theory : Some revisionist suggestions