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Charles Darwin Week

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his most important work, On the Origin of Species. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research have joined together to celebrate both events.

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Friday, September 18

Evolution of Culture and Social Institutions

NWO Conference, Amsterdam, Royal Tropical Institute

Vanaf 09.30

Welcome with coffee

10.15 – 10.20

Opening

 

Plenary session 3: Cooperation
chair: Luc Soete

10.20 – 11.10

Sidney Winter (Wharton, USA)

The Evolutionary Sources of Consummate Cooperation

11.10 - 12.00

Christiaan Keysers (Groningen, NL)

From mirror neurons to cooperation

 

 

 

NWO session Results from the programme E&B

12.00 - 13.30

Lunch and Posters

 

Plenary session 4: Culture
chair: Jan van Hooff

13.30 – 14.20

Joop Goudsblom (Amsterdam, NL)

Evolution of Cultures and Culture

14.20 - 15.10

Wil Roebroeks (Leiden, NL)

Neandertals in perspective

 

 

15.10 – 15.40

Tea break

 

Plenary session 5: Human evolution history
chair: Serge Daan

15.40 - 16.30

Richard Klein (Stanford, USA)

The dawn of Homo sapiens

16.30 - 17.20

 

Paul Anthony Mellars (University of Cambridge)

Rethinking the behavioural origins and dispersal of modern humans: genetic and archaeological perspectives

 

 

17.20

Closing and drinks

Serge Daan and Franciska de Jong