Wired for Culture : The natural history of human cooperation

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*Please be aware that there are some images used in this talk of a violent nature.

Mark Pagel, one of the world's leading experts on human evolution and development, visits the RSA to investigate our species' capacity for culture, cooperation and community.

Wired for Culture : The natural history of human cooperation

Listen to the podcast of the full event including audience Q&A: http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/wired-for-culture

Susan Savage-Rumbaugh : Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man

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Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.

Scientific American Frontiers : Chimp Minds

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A visit with an engaging if unruly bunch of cousins that we formally broke up with about 6 or 7 million years ago.

The Artificial Ape How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

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This lecture was recorded on 11th of September 2010 at the UKH+ meeting. For information on further meetings please see: http://extrobritannia.blogspot.com/

There are seven species of great ape on the planet. How did the weakest ape come out on top?

With breathtaking scope and depth, archaeologist and prehistorian Timothy Taylor presents a new and much-needed theory of technology. It not only turns Darwinian theory on its head, but also argues that (alongside physics and biology) it is the human relationship with artifice that has as powerfully framed and formed human evolution.

About the speaker:
Timothy Taylor, MA PhD FSA FRSA, is currently Reader in Archaeology at the University of Bradford: http://www.brad.ac.uk/AGES/Research/i... He is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of World Prehistory: http://www.springer.com/social+scienc...

Taylor is known for his closely reasoned, wide-ranging, and provocative ideas, and for his ability to connect with general readers and viewers. He has an award winning track record in radio and television in UK, US and Canada on programmes including History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic, BBC Timewatch.

Taylor is the author of The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture and The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death. His latest book, The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution, is being published in September: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Artificial-Ap...

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Daniel Fessler : Taboos, emotions and cultural evolution

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Culture and Cognition

In July 2007, we had a great summer schoool on culture and cognition at the Central European University in Budapest organised by György Gergely and Dan Sperber. The proceeding were video-recorded and many of the lectures (by Rita Astuti, Pascal Boyer, Susan Carey, Gergely Csibra, Dan Fessler, György Gergely, Pierre Jacob, Dan Sperber) and of the students presentations (by Coralie Chevalier, Claire Cooper, Christophe Heintz, Olivier Mascaro, Vlad Naumescu) are now visible online at the school's Youtube channel here.