Workshop

This workshop will provide training in a diverse range of methods in cultural evolution. World-leading experts in cultural phylogenetics, agent-based simulations, mathematical modelling, ethnographic fieldwork and laboratory experiments (with human and non-human animals) will lead training sessions in these methods. The sessions will have taught and practical components. There will also be discussion sessions about the challenges of cultural evolution research and the communication of evolutionary research to the public. The workshop is aimed at practitioners of ANY academic discipline (e.g. biology, psychology, archaeology. anthropology, history, political sciences, linguistics, etc.) studying the diversity of, and changes in, cultural traits (behaviours, beliefs, artefacts, etc.) over time via social learning. 

This workshop is free to register and it is funded by the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA) and the College of Life and Environmental Sciences (CLES) and the Centre for Ecology and Conservation of the University of Exeter (Cornwall).