Thursday,
March 12,
2015

@
G10
Biotechnology
Building,
Cornell University

1:30

1:40


2:10


2:40


3:10

3:30


4:00


4:30

4:40


6:00

Introduction

Michael Kalish
"Iterated Learning Reveals Inductive Priors"

Morten H. Christiansen
"Language Evolution as Cultural Evolution"

David Sloan Wilson
"Sacred Texts as Cultural Genomes: Identifying the Mechanisms of Cultural Evolution "

Break

Peter. J. Richerson
"The Cognitive and Emotional Bases of a System for Cumulative Culture"

Dimitris Xygalatas
"What is Ritual for?"

Break

Panel Discussion
(Kalish, Christiansen, Richerson, Wilson, Xygalatas)

End