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Social networks in human evolution, a PastNets workshop
Thursday 18 October, 10:00am
Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
DESCRIPTION
A one day workshop bringing together researchers working on the interaction between social networks and human evolution.
An indicative, non-exclusive list of topics is the following:
Evolution of cooperation on social networks
Kinship and kin-networks in non-human and human animals
Social information flow in networks, evolution of social cognition
Inequality, group size, structured networks
Fire use, food sharing rituals, social time budget
Friend versus kin networks
Network effects on mate choice, origins of marriage concepts, alloparenting networks
Interaction between social networks and inter-group conflict
Network models of language evolution
Social network aspects of supernatural narratives, evolution of religiousity
Evolution of adaptive life history and social networks
Human dispersal and social networks
The day will consist of short introductory talks, followed by discussion sessions about open questions, and overlapping research intertests. The objective is to initiate a conversation in this new subfield of research.
