| 17.00 |
Teatro dei Rozzi
Luigi L. Cavalli Sforza & Telmo Pievani
“Evoluzione biologica, evoluzione culturale” (public presentation, in italian) |
| 19.00 |
Il Refugio
Arrivals, welcome cocktail, registration |
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| Friday, 11 December 2009 |
| 9.00 |
Opening |
| 10.00 |
Edoardo Boncinelli "The making of mankind" |
| 10.40 |
Samuel Bowles "A cooperative species: human reciprocity and its evolution" |
| 11.30 |
Coffee Break |
| 12.00 |
Marcus Abundis “Towards a unified field theory of human behavior – global cultural evolution” |
| 12.20 |
Sandra Polania Reyes “ Darwin in the experimental lab: between and within group competition effects on human behavior” |
| 12.40 |
Daniel van der Post “On the origin of cultural inheritance, cumulative cultural processes and cultural diversification: self-organization, novelty and adaptation in group foragers learning what to eat” |
| 13.00 |
Franco Ruzzenenti “The role of spatial symmetry in evolution” |
| 13.30 |
Lunch |
| 15.00 |
Ugo Pagano "Human Rationality and the Descent of Man" |
| 15.40 |
Marcus W. Feldman "Technology, maladaptation and accumulation of culture" |
| 16.20 |
Michael T. Ghiselin "Natural selection, teleology, and the principle of unintended consequences" |
| 17.00 |
Coffee Break |
| 17.30 |
Lauren McCall “Group selection or group physiology? filling in the gaps of multi-level selection theory to explain cultural variation” |
| 17.50 |
Alejandro Rosas “On the phylogeny of altruistic punishment” |
| 18.10 |
Thomas B. Singh “Social norms and interpersonal trust” |
| 18.30 |
Fabrizio Adriani
“Trust, introspection, and market participation: an evolutionary approach” |
| 20.00 |
Dinner |
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| Saturday, 12 December 2009 |
| 9.00 |
Robert Rowthorn "Religion as an evolutionary adaptation" |
| 9.40 |
Janusz Kozlowski "Biological vs Cultural diversity during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition" |
| 10.20 |
Giuseppe Rotilio "Nutrition in human evolution: a molecular approach to the developmental history of brain, social behaviour and paleoeconomics" |
| 11.00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11.30 |
Charlotte Faurie “Father–offspring resemblance predicts paternal investment in humans” |
| 11.50 |
Riccardo Pansini “Economics and cooperation dynamics in free-ranging vervet monkeys” |
| 12.10 |
Alessandro Finzi “Behavioural evolution: begging strategy of the andean dogs” |
| 12.30 |
Riccardo Putti “The cave and the spacecraft. Stability and mutation in two visual artefacts” |
| 12.50 |
Annamaria Ronchitelli “The culture of last neanderthals in the southern Italy : evolution or acculturation?” |
| 13.30 |
Lunch |
| 15.00 |
Eric Boéda “Evolution of the technology in the prehistoric lithic artefacts” |
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PhD Afternoon |
| 15.40 |
Luca Valori “Phase transition in the dynamics of opinions taking place on novel types of social networks” |
| 16.00 |
Tiziano Squartini “Statistical physics for biological networks” |
| 16.20 |
Fabio Manfredini “The role of sociality in antiparasitic defense” |
| 16.40 |
Paolo Francesco Banterle “Evolutionary models and sociolinguistics, the example of the Vitiaz Straight
trade jargon” |
| 17.00 |
Francesco Tullio “Evolution, conflict and pandemies” |
| 17.30 |
Coffee Break |
| 18.00 |
Round table and closing |
| 20.30 |
Social Dinner |
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| Sunday, 13 December 2009 |
| 9.00 |
Farewell |
