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Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

07. 'Old Europe' - pensions, taxes and alternatives

Professor David Coleman from Dept of Social Policy, University of Oxford, gives a talk from his "Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World" series talking about the issue of population ageing.
Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

06. Demographic behaviour of immigrant and minority populations

Professor David Coleman from Dept of Social Policy, University of Oxford, gives a talk from his "Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World" series talking about immigrant and minority populations.
Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

05. International migration: guest workers, dependents, asylum and others

Professor David Coleman from Dept of Social Policy, University of Oxford, gives a talk from his "Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World" series talking about international migration.
Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

04. The retreat of mortality - 20th and 21st century trends

Professor David Coleman from Dept of Social Policy, University of Oxford, gives a talk from his "Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World" series talking about trends in mortality.
Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

03. The 'Second Demographic Transition' - new forms of family

Professor David Coleman from Dept of Social Policy, University of Oxford, gives a talk from his "Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World" series talking about the 'Second Demographic Transition'.
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

Book Launch: State Control over Private Military and Security Companies in Armed Conflict

Hannah Tonkin, Lawyer at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, gives a talk to launch her new book on State control over private military companies in areas of armed conflict.
New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution

The Social Brain on the Internet

In primates and humans alike, the number of social relationships an individual can have is constrained in part by its social cognitive competences and in part by the time available to invest in face-to-face interaction.
New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution

Why the Hominin Cognitive Niche Was and Is a Crucially Socio-cognitive Niche

Tooby and deVore argued that hominin evolution hinged on the exploitation of a unique 'cognitive niche'. We propose that a diversity of evidence indicates this was fundamentally a socio-cognitive niche.
New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution

Metacognition and the Social Mind: How Individuals Interact at the Neural Level

I will review recent research in neuroimaging and computation neuroscience, and present a new paradigm for studying decision making in pairs.
New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution

Experiencing Language

The evolutionary relationship between human linguistic capacity and humans' emotional make-up has not, as yet, received focused attention.
New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution

Signals, Honesty and the Evolution of Language

The evolution of language is a long-standing puzzle for many reasons. One is that its very virtues as a system of communication seem to open the door to ruinous free-riding and deception.
New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution

Embodiment: Taking Sociality Seriously

A very wise person of our acquaintance once said, 'Read old books to get new ideas'.
New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution

Cortico-cerebellar Evolution and the Distributed Neural Basis of Cognition

Biologists interested in cognitive evolution have focussed on the dramatic expansion of the forebrain, particularly the neocortex, in lineages such as primates.
New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution

A New Comparative Psychology

In their classic 1969 paper Hodos and Campbell bemoaned the absence of appropriate evolutionary theory in comparative psychology. In this talk I will argue that despite the advent of Evolutionary Psychology the situation has changed only a little today.
New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution

The Mystery of Cumulative Culture

Human demographic and ecological success is frequently attributed to our capacity for cumulative culture, which allows human knowledge and technology to build up and improve over time.
New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution

Cultural Inheritance of Cultural Learning

It is widely acknowledged that the cumulative cultural inheritance of technological skills and social practices has played a major role in shaping the ways of life of modern humans.
New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution

Welcome and Introduction

Introduction to the "New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution" conference.
Podcasts From The Extra-legal Governance Institute (Exlegi)

Undertaking Sensitive Research: Ethnographies in the Illegal Sex Industry in post-socialist China

Dr Tiantian Zheng, State University of New York, gives a talk on Ethnographies in the Illegal Sex Industry in post-socialist China for the Extra-Legal Governance Institute.

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