Research group Centre for Cultural Evolution
The Centre for Cultural Evolution conducts interdisciplinary research on the causal relationships that shape and change human culture in both the long and the short term.
Centre for Cultural Evolution in pictures
Cultural evolution is not a label for a particular theory but a unifying field for interdisciplinary research on cultural emergence and change. Human culture is continuously changing, displays a stunning diversity and is present in most aspects of human life. The term ‘culture’ refers to its broadest meaning, including all phenomena that to some extent depend on social transmission, such as language, religion, laws, politics, technology, or art.
Our vision is to maintain an internationally competitive scientific environment where scientists and students in the humanities, natural and social sciences and mathematics can work together and mutually benefit from each other’s knowledge and methods. The Centre for Cultural Evolution engages in and runs projects together with researchers and departments both within Stockholm University and in international collaborations.
The Centre for Cultural Evolution works on breaking up the divide between humanities, natural and social sciences, and also between different disciplines and research programmes within the areas. Our view is that the division between natural science and the humanities is artifical and unjustified for the study of culture, and that different disciplines can vitalise each other.
Scientific progress is often the result of strong interaction between data and theory. Empirical data gives inspiration and takes out a direction for theoretical work, which in turn needs to be evaluated by further empirical work. Mathematics is an important tool for theoretical work, to formalise ideas and theories, evaluate logical consequences and generate testable hypotheses. At the Centre for Cultural Evolution, theoretical, mathematical and empirical approaches and angles exist in parallel from a broad variety of disciplines.
Group members
Group managers
Anna Jon-And
Senior lecturer, Director of Centre for Cultural Evolution
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Johan Lind
Guest researcher, Deputy director of Centre for Cultural Evolution
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Members
Magnus Enquist
Professor
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Erik Forsberg
PhD Student
![Erik Forsberg](/polopoly_fs/1.450426.1567105151!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Anandi Hattiangadi
Professor
![Anandi Hattiangadi](/polopoly_fs/1.482695.1580479882!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Elida Izani Binti Ibrahim
Phd Student
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Fredrik Jansson
Guest Researcher, Associate Professor
![Fredrik Jansson](/polopoly_fs/1.333356.1495111054!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Arne Jarrick
Professor
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Markus Jonsson
Guest researcher
![Markus Jonsson](/polopoly_fs/1.424059.1548934291!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Martin Kolk
Associate Professor
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Fredrik Liljeros
Professor of Sociology
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Patrik Lindenfors
Associate Professor
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Jerome Michaud
Guest researcher
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Mikael Parkvall
Researcher
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Minna Persson
MSc. in Migration, Mobility and Development
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Tina Sundelin
Associate Professor
![Tina Sundelin. Foto: Henrik Dunér](/polopoly_fs/1.670808.1693575285!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Maria Wallenberg Bondesson
PhD History
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Andreas Wartel
Master of Evolutionary biology
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