Center for Applied Cultural Evolution

Sharing this talk again about the root causes of ecological crisis and the role of bioregional learning centers for weaving a tapestry of regeneration across the Earth... youtu.be/qbCZmzw_01c

In our @TrendsCognSci paper, @bruce_rawlings and I address a question that has long puzzled scientists: How is it that humans have such sophisticated technology, and yet it takes most of childhood to learn to solve basic tool innovation tasks? (1/10) news.utexas.edu/2020/11/20/lea…

At the heart of land regeneration is the need to cooperate... Heal the humans in order to heal the landscape. earth-regenerators.mn.co/posts/prosocia…

Now you can engage with #thisviewoflife in two ways: nonfiction (tinyurl.com/yxluulld) and fiction (atlashugged.world )! @tvolmag @EvoInstitute @EvonomicsMag @CulturalEvolSoc @evolvingfutures @ESICulture @INETeconomics @INETOxford @mercatus @RebuildMacro @DoughnutEcon

@MSchlaile @JohanKask @UniHohenheim @evolvingfutures @CulturalEvolSoc @jale_tosun We are practicing Prosocial in the cohort of ~40 "community regenerators" for creating decentralized governance of the global network. This will help us develop the research tools for tracking prosocial group behaviors across regenerative projects in the future. ;-)

I'm proud to be part of this spinoff organization from @EvoInstitute! You'll be hearing a lot more about it soon...@StevenCHayes @myACBS @CulturalEvolSoc @evolvingfutures @BioengineerGM.

.@amesoudi is being too modest. And I don't ramble! Our conversation takes a deep dive into his excellent work and I look forward to featuring other cultural evolutionists in future podcasts. @EES_update @CulturalEvolSoc @evolvingfutures @HumBehEvoSoc @EvoInstitute

Vital to understand this if you want to intentionally design for regeneration of landscapes...

super wealthy folks giving to charity is better than not giving (a bit), but it can NEVER be a substitute for robust, well-funded, broad public services programs. This fantastic piece by @SaiferAdam explains why

In our new article on #systemsentrepreneurship, we use Donella Meadows' leverage points to conceptualize how entrepreneurs can intervene in innovation systems to implement a dedication to sustainability transitions! link.springer.com/article/10.100… @cognitivepolicy @LevPoints4Sust

I'm proud to co-author this article and co-edit a special issue of Clinical Psychology Review on Clinical Psychology as an Applied Evolutionary Science, with @StevenCHayes and Stefan Hofmann: authors.elsevier.com/a/1bZEM%7E0r1h…. @AB. @myACBS @ABiglan @RandyNesse @EvoInstitute

In a few hours, I will host the free Earth Regenerators webinar about how to set up a research agenda for bioregional design... come join us at 1 pm Central! crowdcast.io/e/research-age…

In today's webinar about bioregional design, these are some of the research topics we will explore together. Cultural evolutionary studies is essential to this work!

Continuing what we started in 2015 with @David_S_Wilson @amesoudi @Peter_Turchin and many other cultural evolution researchers... when we set up the @CulturalEvolSoc and later @evolvingfutures. earth-regenerators.mn.co/posts/the-gran…

The storms of human history: Introducing the Crisis Databank - new post from @JennyReddish about @SeshatDatabank project building a massive set of data on major crises of the past and what we might learn about how to avoid the worst of it today: seshatdatabank.info/the-storms-of-…

This is a great opportunity to catch up on the latest research in animal behavior, centered on nonhuman species, which is essential background for studying evolution in relation to human behavior. @LeeDugatkin @EES_update @CulturalEvolSoc @evolvingfutures

I would like to invite all of you who want to help create research projects devoted to bioregional design to join me this Saturday for a webinar about how we can collaborate through the global network of Earth Regenerators. crowdcast.io/e/research-age…

In 2017 I was lead author on a paper in Nature outlining the "grand challenges" of cultural evolution. This weekend I'll present a research agenda to address several of them. This graphic provides a concept map of the challenges identified by surveying @CulturalEvolSoc members.

Scientific history? Revealing macro-patterns in our collective pasts? Yes!!! Great piece from from @TomCurrieEvo @Peter_Turchin @seregavr @EdwardALTurner

For those seeking to learn how to "manage" the cultural evolution process... here is ample evidence that it can be done. h/t @David_S_Wilson for organizing this important series of conversations. evolution-institute.org/third-way/

Your friendly reminder that chronic existential stress creates the conditions for strong-man dictatorships and fundamentalist religions... We need to address root causes of stress to minimize these patterns. earth-regenerators.mn.co/posts/how-we-c…