Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bologna. Interested in Cultural transmission and evolution, quantitative methods and statistics, Arabian Peninsula
Big News on 14 March! 1. After 5 years of work, my @UCLpress book on 'Heritage and Nationalism: understanding populism through big data' is finally out today! It is FREE to download too!!!
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New preprint with @amesoudi & @psmaldino "Analogy as the core of cumulative cultural evolution." We're looking for lots of feedback so don't hold back!
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Online first in @EvolHumBehav: "We need theory integrated with formal modeling. We therefore need our disciplinary education to include training in models. The problems Barrett highlights arise when theories become canonized into the core dogma of a field."sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
That "last attempt" gave birth to a large-scale and rapidly expanding scientific enterprise that now has its own professional society and routinely appears in the world's top scientific journals. culturalevolutionsociety.org…
Did the last big attempts to construct an evolution-grounded, functionally systematic model of social evolution end in about 1980 (along with rock n' roll)? Axelrod:Hamilton, Lumsden:Wilson, Cvalli-Sforza:Feldman 1981. Can't grasp Boyd:Richerson 1985, not sure Laland is as broad.
Tavola rotonda su migrazioni passate e presenti ed evoluzione umana.
Partecipano Guido Barbujani, Francesco Cavalli-Sforza, Annalisa Furia, Giorgio Manzi @gi_manzi
Ravenna, 10 Ottobre, ore 17:30
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