Nicolas Claidière, PhD student with Dan Sperber, will present the next Doc in Nicod seminar, on wednesday the 16th of January, from 14h00 to 15h30.
"From Evolution Psychology to Cultural Evolution"
Abstract :
Since the 1980's, there are three kinds of theories dealing with the evolution of human cultures from a Darwinian perspective (Dawkins' memetic theory ; Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman's double inheritablity ; Sperber's epidemiology of representations). As we shall see, these theories rely on a more or less broad Darwinism and on different psychological models. I shall here give a proper characterization of each of them and evaluate them with regards to relevant empirical data in psychology.
