Center for Applied Cultural Evolution

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

[Center for Applied Cultural Evolution @evolvingfutures]

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...

https://t.co/ZfdteoaDVm

[Cristine Legare @CristineLegare]

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)
https://t.co/qGdQNqNQgI

[Joe Brewer @cognitivepolicy]

At the heart of land regeneration is the need to cooperate...

Heal the humans in order to heal the landscape.

https://t.co/U2ljWcm7gs

[David Sloan Wilson @David_S_Wilson]

Now you can engage with #thisviewoflife in two ways: nonfiction (https://t.co/SxLOZLkV2J) and fiction (https://t.co/aJOowBfH35 )! @tvolmag @EvoInstitute @EvonomicsMag @CulturalEvolSoc @evolvingfutures @ESICulture @INETeconomics @INETOxford @mercatus @RebuildMacro @DoughnutEcon

[Joe Brewer @cognitivepolicy]

@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. ;-)

[David Sloan Wilson @David_S_Wilson]

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.

[David Sloan Wilson @David_S_Wilson]

.@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

[Joe Brewer @cognitivepolicy]

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

[Daniel Hoyer @hoyerdan]

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

[Michael P. Schlaile @MSchlaile]

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! https://t.co/6OkwDN68Og
@cognitivepolicy
@LevPoints4Sust

[David Sloan Wilson @David_S_Wilson]

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: https://t.co/YPaVOCEjzM. @AB. @myACBS @ABiglan @RandyNesse @EvoInstitute

[Joe Brewer @cognitivepolicy]

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!

https://t.co/48jXtzKLSh

[Joe Brewer @cognitivepolicy]

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!

[Joe Brewer @cognitivepolicy]

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.

https://t.co/g7smRPAdCB

[Daniel Hoyer @hoyerdan]

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: https://t.co/7swjk6lKfE

[David Sloan Wilson @David_S_Wilson]

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

[Joe Brewer @cognitivepolicy]

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.

https://t.co/48jXtzKLSh

[Joe Brewer @cognitivepolicy]

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.

[Daniel Hoyer @hoyerdan]

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

[Joe Brewer @cognitivepolicy]

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.

https://t.co/zIi474xVPa

[Joe Brewer @cognitivepolicy]

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.

https://t.co/4Sd84si8jK