Darwinian Evolution Across the Disciplines

A Dartmouth Interdisciplinary Symposium

October 29-30, 1999


All Events will be held in Filene/Moore Auditorium in the basement of the new Moore Hall (Psychological and Brain Sciences Department) on the Dartmouth College campus.
 

Friday, 29 October 1999, 8:00 PM

Plenary Lecture by David Hull, Northwestern University

The Success of Science and Social Norms
Mixer immediately following Dr. Hull's lecture.

Saturday, 30 October 1999, 8:00 - 5:00

Symposium Schedule

8:00 - 8:10    Welcome and Introduction

8:10 - 9:00    Biological Evolution and Cultural History

Richard Lewontin (Harvard University)

9:00 - 9:50    Computing a la Darwin: Theory and Applications of Evolutionary Computation

Melanie Mitchell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

9:50 - 10:10    Break

10:10 - 11:00    Darwinian Medicine: The Pleasures and Perils of New Questions

Randolph Nesse (University of Michigan)

11:00 - 11:50    Darwin, Veblen and the Problem of Causality in Economics

Geoffrey Hodgson (Cambridge University)

11:50 - 1:00    Lunch

1:00 - 1:50    Cultural Evolution Is Darwinian

Peter Richerson (University of California, Davis)

1:50 - 2:40    Religious Groups as Adaptive Units

David Sloan Wilson (Binghamton University)

2:40 - 3:00    Break

3:00 - 3:50    Why We Need An Evolutionary Psychology

Denise Cummins (University of California, Davis)

3:50 - 5:00    Discussion
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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