[evo.theory] Inheritance, Evolution and Culture Workshop

[Brett Calcott]

Hi all,

A message from Kim Sterelny:


	Inheritance, Evolution and Culture Workshop
	Philosophy Program, RSSS, Australian National University
	August 13th and 14th, 2005.  


I am organising a workshop on "Inheritance, Evolution and Culture" on
August 13 and 14,  2005. Confirmed speakers include:

Fiona Cowie, Philosophy, Caltech, on "Empiricist approaches to language 
evolution"

Russell Gray, Psychology, Auckland on ""The pleasures and  
perils of Darwinising culture (with phylogenies)"

Eva Jablonka, HPS, Te-Aviv , on "Information and heredity in 
the major transitions of evolution"

Ben Kerr, Biology, University of Washington, on "Niche construction
and cognitive evolution"

John Odling-Smee, Biological Anthropology,  Oxford, on "Inheritance"

Ken Reisman, Philosophy, Stanford, on "Concepts of Cultural 
Inheritance".

Pete Richerson, Environmental Studies, UC Davis, on "Not By Genes
Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution"

Kim Sterelny, Philosophy, ANU & VUW, on "Language and Niche Construction" 

Registration is free. But space is limited. So those wishing to attend
should e-mail me at: kimbo at coombs.anu.edu.au,  after June 28.