Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B has published a theme issue with the title Process and pattern in innovations from cells to societies (see a list of papers below). The published articles approach innovation both with theoretical and conceptual, but also with experimental methods. What makes an innovation, who innovates, and Read more…
This year’s Sackler Colloquium ran under the title Sackler Colloquium on Extension of Biology Through Culture (use this link for an online edition). The papers, which are now available in a PNAS special issue, span a wide range of topics in cultural evolution. From social learning in children to song evolution Read more…
On May 25th and 26th 2017, many social learning and cultural evolution researchers gathered again at the Culture Conference in Birmingham. Aside from inspiring conference contributions under the theme “Innovation in cultural systems”, this was also another chance for YSLR members to meet and chat. We met on the day Read more…
The Winter Workshop 2017 is over. Most participants have already travelled home. Some are sticking around to explore Manchester. A good moment to look back on this eventful day. The workshop was built around three activities, that should help to break the ice and getting to know each other. In Read more…
Our Workshop is coming closer very quickly. We are excited about the awesome response of early-career researchers, coming from all over Europe. We can’t wait to welcome you here in Manchester! We completed the programme for the workshop with a schedule for the day, information about our two keynote speakers Eva Read more…
Dear YSLR friends and followers! The first edition of our Newsletter Cultured Scene is out, with articles from Stephen Heap, Elisa Bandini, Edith Invernizzi, Elena Miu, and Rachel Harrison. Thanks to everyone who contributed, especially Stephen Heap for the design and layout! Enjoy reading.
We are online! Let me give you a warm hello and welcome to our brand new YSLR website AND this great new mailing list. Feel free to share the link to the website with everyone who could be interested. The more, the merrier. Communication At our first meeting we discussed different ways to communicate and Read more…
If your research broadly falls into social learning and cultural evolution, we welcome you to join us. We are early career researchers (Masters, PhDs, Post-Docs) with a diverse background spanning from archeology, biology and physics to psychology and philosophy. Our aim is to get to know each other and to Read more…
In a world, where communication happens more and more online it is almost a prerequisite to have an online representation. Here is ours! Thanks to the support of JohnWatt Hosting we now have a website as well as a mailing list, which we will activate soon. Research in social learning, traditions, Read more…
A quick introduction Hi, I’m Marco. I recently started an initiative to connect young researchers (Masters, PhDs, Post-Docs) from diverse backgrounds (spanning from archaeology, biology and physics to psychology and philosophy), whose work broadly falls into social learning and cultural evolution. The aim of this initiative is to initiate a first contact between researchers Read more…