The folks at CaSEs (Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics) are putting together a satellite session for CSS15 in Tempe, Arizona USA The session, entitled “The Cultural Evolution of Technology”. addresses questions such as “What are the similarities and differences between natural and artificial evolution?” and “Does technology evolve within the same framework than other cultural traits?”
Abstracts due June 22, session is being held on September 30th and October 1st. Check it out!
We (Xavier Rubio-Campillo, Sergi Valverde, and myself) are organising a satellite conference titled “The Cultural Evolution of Technology: Evidence, Hypothesis and Theory” at the annual European Conferences on Complex Systems (CCS), which will be held in the most typical of the European towns: Tempe, Arizona. Yes the conference is now international!
The parallelism between cultural and biological evolution has been noted for a quite a long time (see this blog entry for some good introductory readings), but its progress have been more of a parallel development amongst different disciplines rather than the result of a research agenda defined by a single unified field of studies. There is good and bad in this. At the cost of sometimes ignoring the achievmenets of other fields, we had the opportunity to investigate similar deeper questions with different materials and methods. This conference will bring together experts from archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, and physics to discuss a variety of topics…
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