Thursday, November 12

1:00 Session 1:   Keynote Address

Matt Ridley    “Darwin in Genes and Culture”                        

2:30 – 2:45   break

2:45  Session 2:              Brain Evolution Chair: Kim Wallen

Jim Rilling (Anthropology, Emory University)

"Comparative Higher Primate Neuroimaging:  Insights into the Evolution of Human Brain and Mind"            

Richard Passingham (Psychology, University of Oxford)

“How to Turn a Chimpanzee into a Person”    

Todd Preuss (Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University)

“The Human Brain: Rewired and Running Hot”                                   

                       

           

 

Friday, November 13

9:00  Session 3:              The Evolution of Mind Chair: Lawrence Barsalou

Melvin Konner (Anthropology, Emory University)

"Childhood Evolving: The Role of Development in the Evolution of Mind."  

Pascal Boyer (Psychology and Anthropology, Washington University)

“What is Memory for?”                                                                      

Debra Lieberman (Psychology, University of Miami)

              “It's All Relative: The Evolution of Psychological Mechanisms Governing Kin Detection, Incest Avoidance, and Altruism”

12:00 – 1:30  Lunch

1:30  Session 4:              The Evolution of Culture Chair: Carol Worthman

Frans de Waal (Psychology, Emory University)

“Prosocial Primates: Empathy, Fairness, and Cooperation”    

Sally McBrearty (Anthropology, University of Connecticut)                 

            “Behavioral Change at the Origin of Homo sapiens”            

Joe Henrich (Psychology and Economics, University of British Columbia)

                        “On the origins of a cultural species:  How social learning shaped human evolution”

4:30 -  4:45      break

4:45  Session 5:    Discussion

Keynoter’s Observations:  Matt Ridley                                                                                  

General discussion                                                                                                       

6:30 – 9:30  Reception at the Great Hearth of the Emory Conference Center

 

 

This conference is occurring in coordination with the premiere of a new play entitled “Hominid” by Ken Weitzman at Theater Emory (co-produced with Out of Hand Theater), based on Frans de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics (http://theater.emory.edu/Theater-Emory/09-Hominid.php), as well as with an exhibition, entitled "Origin" at the Schatten Gallery of the Robert W. Woodruff Library.