Interdisciplinary Thinking
Human Evolution Resources Cultural Evolution At Darwin’s time, nothing was known about genes. Darwin and others only knew from observations in the world that there is a lot of variation between and within speices, and that offspring resembled their parents. Characteristics are inherited in some way to offspring, and new variation come into the world […]
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Ethnography is the documentation of culture. There are many ways to develop an ethnography, depending on the aims, context, and resources of the researchers.
Students can and should be involved in the science-informed processes of community-based cultural evolution within their own school. Because this can be a complex task, schools should have some form of Community Science Lab (CSL), a group of students that are supported in more systematic approaches to school improvement through educational design thinking.
Develop School-Based Community Science Labs Read More »
Ensure literacy in evolutionary concepts prior to secondary school
Scaffold and ensure literacy in evolutionary concepts prior to secondary school Read More »
Students compare the stories of three Mexican fishing villages to understand the factors that enabled some villages to sustainably manage their fishing resources, while others failed.
Three Mexican fisheries Read More »
Students explore how a honeybee swarm makes a decision about their future nesting site, and explore the similarities and differences to how human groups make decisions.
Honeybee Democracy Read More »
A comparative behavioral research experiment exploring the abilities of chimpanzees and of children to cooperate around a shared resource.
Chimps or children – who is better at sharing resources? Read More »
A behavioral experiment that tells us about the role of unconscious perception, particularly the perception of human eyes, on human social behavior.
Perception of eyes and prosocial behavior Read More »
This model introduces the concept of resource use efficiency into the evolution of resource use behavior.
NetLogo: Evolution of resource use with harvest efficiency Read More »
This NetLogo model builds on the model of Two Foresters. In this model, agents reproduce based on the amount of resources that they harvest.
NetLogo: Evolution and competition for forest resources Read More »
OpenEvo is an educational innovation project from the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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