Keynote Speakers
- Daniel Dennett (Tufts University)
- Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv University)
- Ruth Mace (University College London)
- Alex Mesoudi (University of Exeter)
- Thomas Reydon (University of Hannover)
- Gerhard Schurz (University of Duesseldorf)
- Brian Skyrms (University of California, Irvine)
Book of Abstracts
The book of abstracts can be downloaded here:
The Generalized Theory of Evolution: Programme Schedule
| Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 | ||
| 16:00 — 17:30 | Daniel Dennett: Tools Making Tools: the recursive de-Darwinization of human culture (Chair: Karim Baraghith) (Lecture Hall) Watch Video | See Slides |
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| 17:30 — 18:00 | Fingerfood and Drinks (Foyer, Ground Floor) |
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| 18:00 — 19:15 (ca.) | Round Table: Cultural Evolution or Social Darwinism? Prospects and Problems of a Generalized Evolutionary Theory (Lecture Hall) Watch Videos |
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| Thursday, February 1st, 2018 | ||
| 09:00 — 09:15 | Opening (Lecture Hall) |
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| 09:15 — 10:45 | Alex Mesoudi: The Viability of a Theory and Science of Cultural Evolution (Chair: Karim Baraghith) (Lecture Hall) Watch Video | See Slides |
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| 10:45 — 11:00 | Short Coffee Break (Foyer, 2nd Floor) |
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| Room 2: Complexity (Chair: Özlem Yılmaz) | Room 4: Generalized Evolutionary Modelling (Chair: Hannah Rubin) | |
| 11:00 — 11:30 | Nicola Bertoldi: Complex Adaptive Systems and Evolutionary Explanations. Is the generalized theory of evolution a general theory of complexity? | Alex Aylward: A ‘veritable key of the future’ — R. A. Fisher and the Generality of Selection |
| 11:30 — 12:00 | Cancelled: Carolin Löscher: From Being Alive to Biological Complexity — A matter of communication | Aydin Mohseni: Disagreements in Evolutionary Dynamics See Slides |
| 12:00 — 12:30 | Mel Andrews: Adapting Evolution — Complexity and Culture in a Universal Darwinian Framework See Slides |
Grant Ramsey: Does Evolutionary Theory Have a Unified Conceptual Foundation? |
| 12:30 — 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 — 15:30 | Gerhard Schurz: Generalizing Evolution Theory: Evolution in nature and culture (Lecture Hall) Watch Video | See Slides |
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| 15:30 — 16:00 | Coffee Break (Foyer, 2nd Floor) |
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| Room 2: Communication & Language (Chair: Henk Zeevat) | Room 4: Generalized Evolutionary Modelling (Chair: Gustavo Cevolani) | |
| 16:00 — 16:30 | Fermín C. Fulda: Organismal Evolution and the Ecological Approach to Meaning: From Informational Content to Ecological Relevance | Özlem Yılmaz: Plant Stress Physiology |
| 16:30 — 17:00 | Rafael Ventura: The Emergence and Change of Linguistic Meaning | Walter Veit: The Evolution of Multicellularity: Cheating done right See Slides |
| 17:00 — 17:30 | Karim Baraghith & Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla: Success-Based Inheritance in Cultural Evolution See Slides |
Mathias Gutmann: Human Evolution and Multi-Agent-Modelling |
| 19:00 — 21:00 (ca.) | Conference Dinner (Brewery: Zum Schlüssel, Bolkerstr. 41, 40213 Düsseldorf) |
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| Friday, February 2nd, 2018 | ||
| 09:00 — 10:30 | Brian Skyrms: Some Evolutionary Dynamics of Signaling Games (Chair: Gerhard Schurz) (Lecture Hall) Watch Video | See Slides |
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| 10:30 — 11:00 | Coffee Break (Foyer, 2nd Floor) |
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| Room 2: Generalized Evolutionary Modelling (Chair: Paul Thorn) | Room 4: Generalized Evolutionary Modelling (Chair: Alexander Christian) | |
| 11:00 — 11:30 | Hannah Rubin: Inclusive Fitness. How Not to Import Ideas from Cultural Evolution See Slides |
New Talk: Karim Baraghith: The Causal Interactionist Population Concept in Generalized Darwinian Systems See Slides |
| 11:30 — 12:00 | Marc Artiga: Natural Selection, Functions and Beyond | Pedro Atã & João Queiroz: Art Evolution as Niche Construction in Distributed Cognitive Systems |
| 12:00 — 12:30 | Cailin O’Connor: The Cultural Red King Effect | Caglar Karaca: Is Cosmological Evolution Led by Natural Selection? A misconception in the neo-Darwinian approach |
| 12:30 — 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Room 2: Generalized Evolutionary Modelling (Chair: Alexander Gebharter) | Room 4: Generalized Evolutionary Modelling (Chair: Karim Baraghith) | |
| 14:00 — 14:30 | Ozan Altan Altinok: The Generalized Theories of Evolution See Slides |
Cancelled: Philippe Huneman: Darwinian Cultural Evolution and the Ways of Capturing the Nature of ‘Darwinian’ Systems |
| 14:30 — 15:00 | Man-Him Ip: Evolutionary Debunking Arguments and the Conceptual Truth Objection | Francesco Suman: The Role of Culture in the Evolutionary Process: A pluralistic perspective |
| 15:00 — 15:30 | Gregor Greslehner: Synthetic Biology and Experimental Evolution: Expanding the structure-function space See Slides |
Lorenzo Baravalle: The Theory of Cultural Evolution as Theory of Forces |
| 15:30 — 16:00 | Cancelled: Brian McLoone & Wai-Tong Fan & Adam Pham & Rory Smead & Laurence Loewe: Finite Populations, Group Structure, and the Evolution of Collective Action: Insights from a Discrete Analysis of the Snowdrift Game | Cancelled: Hugh Desmond: Delineating the Cultural Selective Environment: Fitness and Dominance |
| 16:00 — 16:30 | Coffee Break (Foyer, 2nd Floor) |
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| 16:30 — 18:00 | Ruth Mace: No Need for an Upgrade: Using the toolkit from behavioural ecology to study cultural evolution (Chair: Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla) (Lecture Hall) Watch Video |
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| Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 | ||
| 09:00 — 10:30 | Thomas Reydon: Towards Applicability Criteria for Generalized Evolutionary Theories: The concept of real populations (Chair: Corina Strößner) (Lecture Hall) Watch Video |
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| 10:30 — 11:00 | Coffee Break (Foyer, 2nd Floor) |
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| Room 2: EvoDevo (Chair: Gregor Greslehner) | Room 4: Generalized Evolutionary Modelling (Chair: Corina Strößner) | |
| 11:00 — 11:30 | Yoav Soen: Adaptation by Natural Improvisation: A theory of individual-specific adaptation | Florian J. Boge: Is ‘Quantum Darwinism’ really a Darwinism? See Slides |
| 11:30 — 12:00 | Íñigo Ongay de Felipe: Lamarckian Inheritance and the Generalized Theory of Evolution | Cancelled: Theo Stone: Creativity Within Evolutionary Epistemology |
| 12:00 — 12:30 | Cancelled: Sebastian Schuol: The Many Faces of Epigenetics (and their impact for evolutionary thinking) | Michael P. Schlaile: A Case for (Econo-)Memetics: Why we should not throw the baby out with the bathwater |
| 12:30 — 13:00 | Caleb Hazelwood & Lane DesAutels: Extending Evolutionary Individuality: An Appeal to Multi-Dimensional Heredity | Maarten Boudry & Steije Hofhuis: Parasites of the Mind. How cultural representations can subvert human interests See Slides |
| 13:00 — 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 — 15:30 | Eva Jablonka: Culture: An Evolutionary-Developmental Approach (Chair: Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla) (Lecture Hall) Watch Video | See Slides |
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| 15:30 — 15:45 | Closing (Lecture Hall) |
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