{"id":152,"date":"2014-06-12T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T15:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=152"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:02:45","slug":"the-evolution-of-culture-in-monkeys-apes-and-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/the-evolution-of-culture-in-monkeys-apes-and-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Culture in Monkeys, Apes and Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jonathan Birch\/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Andrew Whiten\/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Bryan<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Roberts<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/newsAndMedia\/videoAndAudio\/channels\/publicLecturesAndEvents\/player.aspx?id=2512\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday 12 June 2014, 6.30 \u2013 8pm<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christs.cam.ac.uk\/content\/dr-jonathan-g-birch\"><strong>Jonathan Birch<\/strong><\/a>, Junior Research Fellow, Christ&#8217;s College, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/contact\/staffprofile.aspx?sunid=aw2\"><strong>Andrew Whiten<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology and Wardlaw Professor, University of St Andrews<\/p>\n<p>Chair:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/whosWho\/Fellow-BryanRoberts.aspx\"><strong>Bryan<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Roberts<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n<p>Culture surrounds us. But where did it come from? And what are the basic mechanisms underpinning its transmission? One way to answer this question is to compare the evolution of culture among humans to that of non-human cousins like monkeys and chimpanzees. In this event, renowned scientist\u00a0<strong>Andrew Whiten<\/strong>\u00a0presented some of his results on the evolution of culture, followed by a discussion with philosopher of biology\u00a0<strong>Jonathan Birch<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Birch\/\u00a0Andrew Whiten\/\u00a0Bryan\u00a0Roberts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[83,82,57],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-culture","tag-evolution","tag-philosophyofscience"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/interview-wide2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-2s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11929,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/11929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}