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Humans are highly social animals, often referred to as "cooperative species". Our abilities to cooperate even with unknown individuals at a huge scale have been claimed as a part of human uniqueness. These abilities can be a basis of large complex societies, eventually leading to state formation. In addition to identifying human uniqueness, it has been one of the major challenges in the fields of humanities and social sciences to grasp the consequences of the uniqueness, i.e., the process and mechanisms concerning the development of large complex societies, social hierarchy, as well as political systems in human history (i.e. social evolution). However, cooperation and complex societies are ubiquitous in animal societies. Sociality in humans and animals and its consequence have been investigated in different disciplines. Thus, elucidating the uniqueness of human sociality in the animal kingdom requires cooperative and interdisciplinary research by researchers from various disciplines. This workshop aims to promote interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration to tackle these issues.
Date
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 – Thursday, August 18, 2022
Venue
- On–site: TOKYO ELECTRON House of Creativity 3F, Lecture Theater, Katahira Campus, Tohoku University [Access]
- Online: Zoom Webinar hosted by Tohoku Forum for Creativity
- Wednesday, August 17, 2022
- 13:00 – 13:10
- Opening Remark
- 13:15 – 14:00
- Nobuyuki Kutsukake (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
- Social trajectory and reproductive value in group-living mammals [Online]
- 14:05 – 14:50
- Atsushi Iriki (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research)
- Phase transitions in human evolution: Triadic interactions among brain-cognition-environment
- 14:50 – 15:10
- Coffee Break
- 15:10 – 16:10
- Discussion
- Thursday, August 18, 2022
- 09:30 – 10:15
- Ruth Mace (University College London)
- Why be a monk? Evidence for the inclusive fitness benefits of religious celibacy
- 10:20 – 11:05
- Cedric Perret (University of Exeter)
- Developing a general modelling framework to compare theories of the evolution of inequality in human societies
- 11:10 – 11:55
- Thomas Currie (University of Exeter)
- Assessing multiple hypotheses of the Evolution of Human Sociopolitical Complexity using quantitiatve comaprative analyses
- 12:00 – 13:00
- Lunch
- 13:00 – 13:45
- Yui Arimatsu (Hiroshima University)
- Reciprocity: Leveling mechanism on the evolution of social complexity towards state formation
- 13:50 – 14:35
- Naoko Matsumoto (Okayama University)
- Takehiko Matsugi (National Museum of Japanese History)
- Creating a material world, society, and mind: an archaeological examination of human niche construction.
- 14:35 – 15:00
- Coffee Break
- 15:00 – 16:00
- Discussion
Capacity
On–site: 40
Invited Speakers
Yui Arimatsu (Hiroshima University)
Thomas Currie (University of Exeter)
Atsushi Iriki (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research)
Nobuyuki Kutsukake (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
Ruth Mace (University College London)
Takehiko Matsugi (National Museum of Japanese History)
Naoko Matsumoto (Okayama University)
Cedric Perret (University of Exeter)
Registration
Registration deadline: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 17:00 (JST)
– Closed
Time Schedule
In cooperation with
Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University
Humanities Program, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University
Contact
Email: takao.koga.a2*tohoku.ac.jp (change * to @)