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Materials for constructing causal maps about the evolution of human traits on the blackboard
Chalkboard materials for constructing a causal map for the evolution of upright walking
A handout that introduces students to the causal map to map the evolution and development of traits, with the example of upright walking
A worksheet in which students calculate and graph the changes in the frequencies of traits related to upright walking in a population over several
Google sheet template for entering and plotting the measurements of hominin fossil skulls
Instruction sheet for measuring cranial capacity, opisthion index and prognathism on fossil hominin skulls
Materials for constructing an initial causal map relating observable features of fossil hominin skulls, behaviors, and environmental conditions
An activity for students to explore and notice traits on fossil hominin skulls
Human intelligence seems to be a social, more than merely an individual phenomenon. What can we learn from comparing human societies to human brains?
The human brain is the seat of human agency, and yet this agency is caused by cellular agents unaware of our larger human goals.
A collection of lesson materials to explore the nature of human morality in the light of evolution and sustainability
Thinking tools are used across diverse lessons to develop the skills of evolutionary anthropologists, behavioral scientists, and sustainability scientists
The Noticing Tool helps us be aware of and interpret our experiences and behaviors in the present and to orient our behaviors towards valued
How should we think about the actions and functions of machines in society? How can a science of machine behavior help us understand and
Human Evolution Resources Human needs, values, and well-being What do humans need? What do you think is important for all or most humans to
Human Evolution Resources Cumulative Culture Physicist Isaac Newton once said of the importance of his scientific accomplishments: “I could only look so far because
What can we learn from cooperation games about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Cooperation games help us to investigate the causes, variations, and consequences
A page for researchers interested in the concept of agency as it relates to learning theories of evolution, including natural selection in biological systems.
Learning and Evolution are processes that are both similar and different, in important respects. What can humans learn by comparing these processes?
How can we understand the causal relationships between goals, behaviors, and outcomes?
An introductory h5p interactive sorting task for starting a conversation on the diversity and complexity of understanding agency.
An introduction to Michael Levin’s framework for understanding agency across biological and computational contexts.
‘What Kind of Mind?’ provides teaching resources to introduce pupils to research ideas about animal minds.
A collection of interactive H5P activities around the themes of evolution, behavior, sustainability
An Evolving Schools Regional Workshop Model on the participatory development of school profiles that can inform school improvement and global innovation research collaborations.
In this lesson students explore the concept of (human) behavior, its causes, and its relation to well-being and sustainable development.
Resources for advancing a regional workshop on the topic of curriculum overload.
Regional Workshop Models are collections of resources and ideas for teacher education and school innovation research groups to organize around as part of local
A collection of resources for understanding the evolutionary origins and cultural diversity of number systems and ways of quantifying the world around us.
The OpenEvo TeachingBase provides a roadmap to our interdisciplinary collection of teaching resources.
This model simulates the evolution of populations in an environment that is spatially structured. In such a situation, several evolutionary mechanisms operate, including migration,
This model adds cultural evolutionary dynamics through behavior imitation to the evolution of resource use behavior.
Simple diagrams can help us map and understand the structures of knowledge in our world.
Learning about Structures of Knowledge (SoK) is a foundation for interdisciplinary learning. SoK can be represented graphically in diagrams that help us understand and
The scientific fields of evolutionary anthropology and behavioral sciences have produced a wealth of new insights into the nature of human behavior, cognition and
This model lets us explore how the appearance of certain social behaviors can affect evolutionary population dynamics.
In this lesson, students analyze a select real-world social-ecological system by looking at factors of the resource(s) and ecosystem, resource user behaviors, and governance,
A lesson collection on evolution, cooperation, and sustainability
Evolutionary Anthropology in the Primary School – a pre-service primary teacher module
The core self-study module for entering the Prosocial Youth ecosystem of ideas and resources.
Our interdisciplinary teacher’s guide outlines our educational design concept. It provides introductory readings around core concepts of human sciences and ideas for exploring them
Payoff matrices can help us analyze the behavioral strategies and possible outcomes in diverse situations across biology and society.
Causal mapping helps us reflect on the interdependent relationships between agents and entities within complex systems.
Analogy mapping is a tool for thinking about similarities and differences between different concepts or phenomena.
Dustin Eirdosh is a researcher in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Psychology, in Leipzig, Germany and
Tinbergen’s Questions can help organize complex causality of behaviors and other phenomena across time.
How can we use insights about human evolution, human behavior, and the causal interactions in social-ecological systems to address local, regional and global sustainability
What can we learn from our own thoughts and intuitions about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Understanding the causes of our perceptions, intuitions, and
What can we learn from computer models about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Computer models allow us to observe and investigate the influence of
What can we learn from communities around the world managing shared resources about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Exploring diverse sustainability dilemmas in the
What can we learn from the diversity of human cultures about human evolution, behavior and sustainability? Studying the behaviors of humans around the world
What can we learn from children about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? The development of social and cognitive abilities in the course of a
What can we learn from our biologically close and distant relatives about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Comparing traits of humans and other species
What can we learn from our ancestors about human evolution, behavior and sustainability? Exploring the characteristics of our ancestors, their living conditions, and the
Schools are central social environments for young people to grow and develop themselves. How schools are governed, and which norms, values, and institutions get
Human Evolution Resources Life with other groups The evolution and history of our species is not only characterized by living in isolated and small
Human Evolution Resources Symbols and Language Human language and our capacity for symbolic thinking are probably among the most challenging set of human traits
Human Evolution Resources Life in groups For our ancestors since Homo erectus, the survival and raising of offspring depended more and more on the
Human Evolution Resources Gesturing and shared attention Even before children begin to speak, they are already communicating with the people around them: with the
Human Evolution Resources Agriculture and domestication For most of our evolutionary history, our species fed on the hunting and gathering of animals and plants
Human Evolution Resources Emotions What is an emotion? What are emotions? How would you define the term? What characterizes emotions? What are some examples
Human Evolution Resources Behaviors of our mind We can pretty easily explain the evolution of traits such as upright walking, and the differences and
Human Evolution Resources Gene-culture Co-evolution Biological evolution and cultural evolution are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, they can influence each other. Genetically evolved
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
Human Evolution Resources Creativity and flexibility Many traits are strongly influenced by genetic inheritance. Through random mutations in the genome, new features and traits
Human Evolution Resources Childhood, teaching, learning Primates, and apes in particular, have a long developmental phase (relative to the total lifespan) compared to other
Human Evolution Resources Evolution of endurance running Many features of our body and our physiology suggest that they are not merely adaptations to upright
Human Evolution Resources Early stone tools For a long time it was thought that the use and manufacture of tools are features that distinguish
Can infants tell right from wrong? And if so, how would you know? Come to Yale’s baby lab. Lesley Stahl reports.
Human Evolution Resources Hominins The Hominini include all members of the lineage that separates us from our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. The only surviving
Human Evolution Resources Brain Size One of the most striking and well-known features that characterize our species is the size of our brain. The
Content anchors reflect the concepts, methods, and perspectives of evolutionary anthropology, behavioral, and sustainability sciences.
Human Evolution Resources Evolution of upright walking Changes in environmental conditions About 6 million years ago, a global change in the climate gradually began.
Our collection of resources for learning about human origins and evolution
This lesson is about exploring the concept of values with students and having them identify and reflect on what they personally value, or what
With these teaching materials, students can be introduced to game theory in general, as well as a concrete method, the public goods game. The
Students compare the stories of three Mexican fishing villages to understand the factors that enabled some villages to sustainably manage their fishing resources, while
Students explore the principles that allow groups to work together and achieve common goals, applying them to the groups that they are a part
A set of behavioral experiments to find out what motivates people to save electricity, exploring the roles of monetary incentives, social norms, appeals to
A behavioral experiment that tells us about the role of unconscious perception, particularly the perception of human eyes, on human social behavior.
A cooperation game that lets students experience some of the challenges of cooperation in addressing global climate change
A group game that lets students experience the dilemma between self-interest and collective interest when groups have to work together to achieve shared goals.
In a classroom simulation game with changing conditions students develop strategies for the use of a common resource so that the profit for the
A comparative behavioral research experiment exploring the abilities of chimpanzees and of children to cooperate around a shared resource.
