The Extension of Biology Through Culture - videos

These videos are from the Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, in Irvine California on 16 and 17th of November 2016 on: "The Extension of Biology Through Culture":

• Can we identify a primate signature in social learning?, Dorothy Fragaszy, University of Georgia
• Ongoing prospects for a unified science of cultural evolution, Alex Mesoudi, University of Exeter
• The ontogenetic foundations of cumulative cultural transmission, Cristine Legare, University of Texas, Austin
• Can culture re­shape the evolution of learning and how?, Arnon Lotem, Tel Aviv University
• "I don't know": ignorance and question­ asking as engines for cognitive development, Paul Harris, Harvard University
• Big data, cultural macroevolution and the prospects for an evolutionary science of human history, Russel Gray, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
• The evolution of primate intelligence, Kevin Laland, University of St Andrews
• Gene-­culture coevolution in whales and dolphins, Hal Whitehead, Dalhousie University
• What evolves in the evolution of social learning? A social insect perspective, Elli Leadbeater, Royal Holloway University of London
• Childhood as simulated annealing: How wide hypothesis exploration in an extended childhood contributes to cultural learning, Alison Gopnik, University of California, Berkeley

A full program listing is here.