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Center for Applied Cultural Evolution

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Our mission is to help change practitioners learn the science of cultural evolution as they improve the health and resilience of their communities.

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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

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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…


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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…


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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. ;-)


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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.

Humanity from an evolutionary perspective (which includes evo psychology) is what's needed. We're a groupishly-egalitarian species, products of multilevel selection, so all approaches should be based on that fact. @David_S_Wilson @EvoInstitute @tvolmag prosocial.world



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.@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

Humanity from an evolutionary perspective (which includes evo psychology) is what's needed. We're a groupishly-egalitarian species, products of multilevel selection, so all approaches should be based on that fact. @David_S_Wilson @EvoInstitute @tvolmag prosocial.world



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

Niche construction stresses a dialectical relationship between organisms and their environments. Examples include the building of nests and burrows by animals and the alteration of soil chemistry and nutrient cycling by plants. ow.ly/mIDG50AGs5N



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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

Niche construction stresses a dialectical relationship between organisms and their environments. Examples include the building of nests and burrows by animals and the alteration of soil chemistry and nutrient cycling by plants. ow.ly/mIDG50AGs5N



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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


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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


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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…

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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!

cognitivepolicy's tweet image. 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!

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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…


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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-…


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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

Niche construction stresses a dialectical relationship between organisms and their environments. Examples include the building of nests and burrows by animals and the alteration of soil chemistry and nutrient cycling by plants. ow.ly/mIDG50AGs5N



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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…

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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.

cognitivepolicy's tweet image. 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.

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

My new paper just published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications: Duration of agriculture and distance from the steppe predict the evolution of large-scale human societies in Afro-Eurasia rdcu.be/b5Dgp with @seregavr @Peter_Turchin and Edward Turner

TomCurrieEvo's tweet image. My new paper just published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications: Duration of agriculture and distance from the steppe predict the evolution of large-scale human societies in Afro-Eurasia  
rdcu.be/b5Dgp with @seregavr @Peter_Turchin and Edward Turner


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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/


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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…


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