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This guided learning journey will introduce the basics of the ProSocial method as an applied change process and welcome participants into our growing global ProSocial Commons community.
This course provides weekly peer-group meetings to discuss, explore and deepen the work. Participants will be supported in identifying and working on their particular collaborative needs and goals.
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Making the Stone Stony: How the Arts Can Help Us Navigate Cultural Evolution
Stories are essentially relational: while we might read them alone, they move us in relation to each other and create relationship in us.
Role Playing in Human Evolution: From Life to Art
Natural Selection and Multilevel Selection as Causal Theories
Hollywood Climate Movies and The Potential of Tragedy
The Tide of Opinion on Group Selection has Turned
The acceptance of group selection has all the earmarks of a paradigm shift.
DNA, Nabokov, and Biogeography
The authors examine the prehistory of Nabokov’s surprising, controversial, and ultimately vindicated 1945 scenario for the dispersal of Polyommatini Blue butterflies across the Americas.
The Theory and Practice of Cultural Evolution: Past, Present, and Future, with Peter J. Richerson
Join us as we discuss the past, present, and future of the vitally important topic of Nature vs. Nurture.
The Arts as a Communal Signaling Device
Evolution, Human Nature, and Imagination
Response to Reviewers of DNA, Nabokov, and Biogeography
Why Do Humans Enjoy Fictional Stories?
The imaginary worlds we create and consume are not cultural anomalies, but rather direct manifestations of our cognition.
Williams’ Rule and Its Relevance for Positive Change Efforts
Williams’ Rule ought to be more widely known, which can improve any positive change effort, no matter what topic domain or scale.