10: How the culture transformed the evolution of humans
LECTURE OUTLINE
Lecture 1 Friday August 20
13:30-14:10 Culture Is Essential
Reading: Richerson and Boyd, Chapter 1
15:00-15:40
Lecture 2 Saturday August 21
13:30-14:10 Culture Exists
Reading: Richerson and Boyd, Chapter 2
15:00-15:40
Lecture 3 Sunday August 22
13:30-14:10 Culture Evolves
Reading: Richerson and Boyd, Chapter 3
15:00-15:40
Lecture 4 Monday August 23
13:30-14:10 Culture Is an Adaptation
Reading: Richerson and Boyd, Chapter 4
15:00-15:40
Lecture 5 Tuesday August 24
13:30-14:10 Culture Is a Maladaptive
Reading: Richerson and Boyd: Chapter 5
15:00-15:40
READING LIST:
Dr. Merlin W. Donald “A Mind So Rare: the evolution of human consciousness” (Norton, 2003)
Many of papers are available (on request) from the web, in pdf format. These are listed on website – http://psyc.queensu.ca/faculty/donald/sel-pubs.html or http://psyc.queensu.ca/faculty/donald/donald.html
Dr. Peter J. Richerson: All recent papers are available on web site: www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/richerson/richerson.htm
The reader relatively unfamiliar with the topic would do well to start with:
Built For Speed, Not for Comfort: Darwinian Theory and Human Culture, with
Robert Boyd. 2001. In History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 23: 423-463. Adobe pdf file.
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Merlin DONALD
Professor, Department of Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Canada
| 1968 | Ph.D. McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
| 1968-1970 | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1970-1972 | Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Cross Appointment) |
| 1972-1973 | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen's University |
| 1974-1982 | Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen's University |
| 1980-1990 | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University (Research Cross Appointment) |
| since 1982 | Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen's University |
| since 1995 | Professor, Faculty of Education, Queen s University (Cross-Appointment) |
Peter J. RICHERSON
Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, U.C. Davis
| 1965 | B.S. (Entomology) |
| Student at Marine Biology Laboratory | |
| 1967 | TeVega Program, Stanford University |
| 1969 | Ph.D. (Zoology), University of California, Davis |
| 1967-1969 | N.S.F. Pre-doctoral Fellow |
| 1969-1971 | Postdoctoral Researcher, U.C., Davis |
| 1971-1977 | Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, U.C. Davis |
| 1977-1983 | Associate Professor |
| 1977-1980 | Associate Director, Institute of Ecology |
| 1983-1990 | Director |
| 1977-1978 | Visiting Professor, Energy and Resources Program, U.C: Berkeley |
| 1984 | Forestry and Environmental Studies, Duke University |
| 1991 | Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany |
