Workshop report: Integrating development and inheritance

by Kevin Laland & Tobias Uller

Last month, researchers from around the world gathered at the Santa Fe Institute to discuss the evolutionary implications of extra-genetic inheritance. The workshop – Integrating Development and Inheritance – was organized as part of the EES research program. For two and a half days the participants – biologists, mathematicians, computer scientists, anthropologists, historians and philosophers of science –

Bridging cultural gaps: Promoting interdisciplinary studies in human cultural evolution

by Oren Kolodny, Marcus W Feldman & Nicole Creanza

Within the blink of an eye on a geological timescale, humans advanced from using basic stone tools to studying the rocks on Mars; however, our exact evolutionary path and the relative importance of genetic and cultural evolution remain a mystery. Our cultural capacities—to create new ideas, to communicate and learn from one another, and to