Tag: Anthropology

Events:

Friday May 23 at 12pm ET

Democracy’s Deep Roots: From Hunter-Gatherers to Modern Society A conversation between Vivek Venkataraman and David Sloan Wilson

Free Live Discussion and Q&A with the Speakers

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Wednesday December 6th at 12pm ET

Research Seminar: How Multilevel Selection Theory Can Change The World: The Inevitable Convergence of Modern Science with Indigenous Wisdom with Mitch Distin

1.5 hour free research seminar and Q&A session

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Articles:

January 10, 2025

Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Human Origins, and Modern Democracies: A Conversation with Vivek Venkataraman

Hunter-gatherer societies have much to teach us about modern Democratic governance.

Podcast

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March 5, 2024

Evolution, Human Nature, and Imagination

The human capacity for creating an imaginative virtual world has been the culminating adaptation of the long human trajectory of gene-culture coevolution.

Arts

Culture

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April 20, 2012

Are Taboos Adaptive? Evidence from the Island of Fiji

Are taboos ignorant superstitions, do they contain adaptive wisdom, or are they a mixture of both?

Culture

Mind

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August 6, 2012

An Anthropologist Walks Into A Bar And Asks, ‘Why Is This Joke Funny?’

Why humor evolved.

Mind

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January 24, 2013

How and Why Do We Pick Our Friends?

Studies of dolphins, primates and humans show the reason we choose the companions we do is more complex, and perhaps less honorable, than we might think.

Environment

Mind

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