CPS reading group 25/02

[Thomas Graham]

Hi all,

This week, the CPS reading group will be reading "Cultural Evolution,
Niche Construction and Ecological Inheritance" by Kim Sterelny. You
can find the paper
attached to this email.

For the first few weeks of semester, the group will meet at
10:30-11:30am on Wednesday, in room 6.71. You can find the abstract
below, and the zoom link below that.

If you are a regular attendee of the CPS group, and you cannot make
this time slot due to changes in schedules as we spool up into the
semester, please let me know, and I will put together a poll to see if
we can find a time that everyone can make.

Cheers,

Tom

Abstract:
There is a consensus that the remarkable versatility of humans is
explained by rapid behavioural adaptation to specific local
environments, and that this adaptation is made possible by cumulative
culture. Learning to live in a new patch is a multi-generation
enterprise requiring one generation to build on the informational
resources of its predecessor. This article endorses the importance of
multigenerational accumulation of information, but is sceptical of one
main explanation of that accumulation: that it is guided and shaped by
selection on cultural variation. Instead, the article proposes an
explanation based on niche construction, hybrid learning, and
ecological inheritance.

Zoom link:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://anu.zoom.us/j/84613271309?pwd=368zBkkuTfPFWqTNxLoTxOOV8QM9JW.1

[Thomas Graham]

Hi all,

Just a reminder that CPS is on tomorrow.

Cheers,

Tom