Inheritance and cooperation program

All talks take place in LR23 at Balliol College, Oxford

 Thursday 25^th June

 

09.45am – 10.15am	Welcome coffee
10.15am – 11.00am	Dr Ellen Clarke (Philosophy, Oxford): Introduction to inheritance and cooperation.
11.00am – 12.30pm	Prof. Heikki Helanterä (Zoology, Helsinki): ‘Superorganisms as model systems.’
	Dr Tobias Uller (Zoology, Oxford/Lund): Response
12.30pm – 2.00pm	Lunch (Hall)
2.00pm - 3.30pm	Dr Francesca Merlin (Philosophy, Paris):  ‘Limited extended inheritance.’
	Matthew Clarke (BPhil Philosophy, Oxford): Response
3.30pm – 4.00pm	Coffee
4.00pm – 5.30pm	Dr Simon Powers (Zoology, Lausanne): ‘What drove the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies?’
	Jessica Laimann (BPhil Philosophy, Oxford): Response

Friday 26^th June

9.00am – 10.30am	Dr Rachael Brown (Philosophy, Macquarie): ‘Generating benefit: Social learning and the other cooperation problem.’
	Prof. Cecilia Heyes (Psychology, Oxford): Response
10.30am - 11.00am	Coffee
11.00am -12.30pm	Dr Jonathan Birch (Philosophy, LSE): ‘Time and relatedness in microbes and humans.’
	Michael Bentley (DPhil Zoology, Oxford): Response
12.30pm – 2.00pm	Lunch (Hall)
2.00pm – 3.30pm	Prof. Peter J Richerson (Biology, UC Davis):
	Dr John Odling-Smee (Anthropology, Oxford): Response
3.30pm - 4.30pm	Roundtable discussion with coffee