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- New interdisciplinary master's courses in cultural evolution 2020-11-18 Are you interested in a broad interdisciplinary perspective on cultural change, integrating the humanities, social and natural sciences? Then these courses are for you!
- Cultural Evolution Symposium: Animal intelligence 2020-09-29 Interdisciplinary symposium on animal intelligence: theoretical concerns, replications crisis, and future directions.
- Thinking about thinking 2019-11-19 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.
- New scientific model can predict moral and political development 2019-08-28 How come today’s conservatives are more liberal than yesterday’s liberals? A new study answers several critical questions on how public opinion changes on moral issues.
- A new computational theory of social learning in animals 2019-03-13 Associative processes supported by genetic predisposition can account for most types of social learning processes found in nonhuman animals.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mailing list for Cultural Evolution Seminars 2018-02-11 Subscribe to our mailing list for updates on upcoming seminars.