Iain couzin on WNYC Radiolab

Simon Garnier — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:32:09 +0000

Pr. Iain Couzin (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) was recently invited to participate in the first live event of the AWE-MAGEDDON series organized by Radiolab, a popular scientific radio show on WNYC. Hereafter is an excerpt of this show where Iain Couzin introduces the work done at his lab and answer to some questions from the show hosts, Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

Click here to view the embedded video.

The original video can be found here on the Radiolab blog.

NY Times: “Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force”

Simon Garnier — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:34:14 +0000

On March 1, 2010, the New York Times has published an interesting article about the role of culture as a force at play in natural selection. The author, Nicholas Wade, reviews and summarizes thoughts and ideas that have emerged recently (but were floating around since several years) about the strong link that may exist between human evolution (in a Darwinian meaning) and human culture.

For those interested by this topic (as I am), here is the address of the NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/science/02evo.html. For more information, hereafter are some links towards some of the leaders of this movement that tends to bring together cultural and natural evolution:

Professor Kevin Laland, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Professor Robert Boyd, University of California, Los Angeles.
Professor Peter Richerson, University of California, Davis.
Professor Mark Stoneking, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany.

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Iain couzin on WNYC Radiolab

NY Times: “Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force”