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Conference: Inheritance and Cooperation

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Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 10:00am to Friday, June 26, 2015 - 5:00pm
Balliol College, Oxford

Francesca Merlin (Philosophy, Paris): ‘Limited extended inheritance.’

Heikki Helanterä (Biology, Helsinki): ‘Superorganisms as model systems.’

Rachael Brown (Philosophy, Macquarie): ‘Generating benefit: Social learning and the other cooperation problem.’

Simon Powers (Biology, Lausanne): ‘What drove the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies?’

Jonathan Birch (Philosophy, London School of Economics): ‘Time and relatedness in microbes and humans.'

Ellen Clarke (Philosophy, University of Oxford): ‘Inheritance and cooperation.’

Peter J Richerson (Biology, UC Davis): TBA

With responses from Cecilia Heyes, Tobias Uller, Michael Bentley, Jessica Laimann, John Odling-Smee and Matthew Clark.

Attendance is free but you must register to attend the meeting.  A limited number of student bursaries are available. For all info contact ellen.clarke@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Funded by TORCH, Balliol College and All Souls College

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Contact name: 
Ellen Clarke
Audience: 
Open to all