What is the CECD?
The CECD is an AHRC funded research group dedicated to examining the evolutionary underpinnings of human cultural behaviour, past and present.
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News Archive:
09/12/2011:
From action to language (New Publications)
09/12/2011:
Melanie Challenger (CECD Creative Fellow)'s new book 'On Extinction' (Books)
15/11/2010:
Journal special issue on 'Cultural and linguistic diversity: evolutionary approaches' compiled and edited by James Steele, Peter Jordan and Ethan Cochrane (New Publications)
15/11/2010:
Voice Box - Physics and Evolution of Speech (school science extension activity) (New Publications)
15/11/2010:
Language competition and the future of Scottish Gaelic (Research Findings)
22/10/2010:
CECD Conference: Papers now available in Open Access (New Publications)
30/08/2010:
*Registration open* AHRC CECD 2010 Conference on Cultural Evolution in Spatially Structured Populations - 13th-15th September 2010 (Meetings)
17/08/2010:
Norms and Moral Psychology Conference (Meetings)
02/08/2010:
AHRC CECD 2010 Summer school:
Modelling of spatial diffusion and dispersal processes in social science
(Meetings)
13/07/2010:
Vacancy Leverhulme PhD Studentship: Learning to be Human - Skill Acquisition and the Development of the Human Brain (News)
10/03/2010:
AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity – Bursaries for Visitors (News)
19/10/2009:
Visiting Scholar Talk: Modelling the Evolutionary Ecology of Hawaiian Complex Chiefdoms (Visitors)
28/08/2009:
Humans first evolved the ability to digest milk around 7,500 years ago (News)
12/05/2009:
Exhibition: Discover Culture with Darwin (News)
01/05/2009:
Pots, Palaces and Politics (Meetings)
28/03/2009:
AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity – Bursaries for Visitors (News)
16/01/2009:
UCL Institute of Archaeology Research Seminars - Spring 2009 (News)
15/10/2008:
Theory, philosophical schools and practical applications of Biocultural Taxonomy (Meetings)
15/09/2008:
AHRC CECD Summer School in Cultural Phylogenetics (News)
06/08/2008:
British Academy Symposium - Social Brain, Distributed Mind (Meetings)
22/02/2008:
Evolving trails (Research Findings)
19/02/2008:
Vacancies: British Academy Centenary Research Project (News)
11/02/2008:
PhD Studentship - Social diversity, isotopic analysis, and the origins of complex society at Ban Non Wat, Thailand (News)
15/01/2008:
New member of staff (News)
02/12/2007:
CECD Creative Fellow appointed (News)
05/11/2007:
AHRC CECD - New member of staff (News)
31/08/2007:
Social learning and cultural evolution Workshop - Hosted by University of Durham, Department of Anthropology (Meetings)
24/08/2007:
Vacancy:
Research Assistant/Research Associate post in: The Behavioural and Cognitive Organization of Stone Tool-making, funded by the European Commission. (News)
26/07/2007:
LERN workshop for postgraduate and post-doctoral students - Modern approaches to investigating cultural evolution. (News)
07/06/2007:
STUDENT BURSARIES for attending the BA FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE in YORK Sept 2007 (Awards)
01/06/2007:
EHBE Conferences Website Launched (News)
17/05/2007:
Vacancy:
Research Fellow in Vocal Tract Acoustic Modelling based in Southampton. (News)
17/05/2007:
Vacancy:
Postdoctoral research position in psychology and movement science applied to archaeology based in Paris. (News)
05/05/2007:
AHRC CECD new member of staff (News)
30/04/2007:
AHRC CECD new member of staff (News)
20/04/2007:
Innovations -
Arkeotek
and
Archaeoinformatics
(News)
30/03/2007:
Fashions change, but change is always the fashion (Research Findings)
05/03/2007:
Article by Dr Mark Thomas: Early Europeans 'couldn't stomach milk' (Research Findings)
27/02/2007:
AHRC CECD New member of Staff (News)
23/02/2007:
AHRC CECD - New member of staff (News)
13/02/2007:
Ethnographic Database Project website launched (News)
05/02/2007:
AHRC CECD - Award for visiting Research Fellow (News)
05/01/2007:
Vacancy:
PostDoctoral Research Fellowship - the Evolutionary Anatomy of Speech (News)
20/12/2006:
Vacancy:
New AHRC PhD studentship in Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh
(News)
12/12/2006:
UCL - Institute of Archaeology Research Seminars, Spring 2007 (Meetings)
29/11/2006:
Vacancy:
New AHRC PhD Studentship at Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield
(News)
29/11/2006:
Leslie Aiello - Huxley Memorial Lecture - 7th December (News)
18/10/2006:
London Evolutionary Research Network (LERN) (Meetings)
04/09/2006:
Vacancy:
AHRC CECD Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Modelling of Cultural Evolution on Phylogenies (News)
02/09/2006:
HANDTOMOUTH - New EC Pathfinder project (Awards)
23/08/2006:
London Evolutionary Research Network Annual Conference (Meetings)
07/08/2006:
Beautiful people tend to have girls (News)
19/07/2006:
Y-chromosomes and the social structure of Anglo-Saxon England (Research Findings)
19/07/2006:
US graduate training scheme will involve exchanges with CECD (News)
18/07/2006:
NSF Fellow based at CECD (Visitors)
28/06/2006:
New Research Grant goes to Stephen Shennan and Keith Dobney for "The origin and spread of stock-keeping in the Near East and Europe". (Awards)
24/06/2006:
The birth of jewellery and personal adornment. (News)
20/06/2006:
LONDON EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE (Meetings)
10/05/2006:
Vacancy:
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Mathematical Modelling of Cultural Evolution (News)
04/04/2006:
AHRC CECD Workshop/Conference (Meetings)
04/04/2006:
AHRC Centre PhD studentship available - gene/culture coevolution (News)
04/04/2006:
AHRC Centre PhD studentship available - measuring linguistic similarity (News)
28/02/2006:
Gustavo Politis to visit the Centre (Visitors)
01/01/2006:
The Phase Two Centre is launched! (News)
25/11/2005:
CECD is hiring! (News)
19/10/2005:
The AHRC welcomes Dr. Marian Vanhaeren (Visitors)
18/10/2005:
Incoming CECD Director James Steele participates in diverse series of talks (Meetings)
18/10/2005:
CEACB Director Stephen Shennan becomes Director of UCL Institute of Archaeology (News)
24/08/2005:
Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution conference pack released (Meetings)
18/07/2005:
New CEACB research at University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Research Findings)
08/07/2005:
Conference: Origins of Ceramics and Hunter Gatherers of Northern Eurasia (Meetings)
13/06/2005:
The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: A Phylogenetic Approach (Books)
13/05/2005:
A short walk through the Balkans (Meetings)
06/05/2005:
The Island Chumash (New Publications)
06/05/2005:
CEACB researchers prepare for summer expeditions. (Research Findings)
08/04/2005:
How old are the Indo-European languages? Progress or more moths to the flame? (Meetings)
06/04/2005:
CEACB welcomes Takehiko Matsugi (Visitors)
07/03/2005:
UCL's Centre for Evolution of Cultural Diversity receives £1.25 million five-year grant from Arts and Humanities Research Board (Awards)
11/02/2005:
Post Doctoral Positions at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (News)
02/02/2005:
Details of 2005 Conference (Meetings)
01/02/2005:
New publication on social information transmission (New Publications)
01/12/2004:
Teeth give clues to the structure of early farming settlements in Thailand (Research Findings)
01/12/2004:
Poster call for 2005 AHRB CEACB conference (Meetings)
18/11/2004:
Evolutionary Anthropology Society to become reality (Meetings)
18/11/2004:
Society in Science invites proposals for The Branco Weiss Fellowship (Awards)
02/11/2004:
Peter Jordan takes up position at Sheffield (News)
02/11/2004:
Prof. Shennan and Dr. Jordan attend conference at Santa Fe Institute (News)
02/11/2004:
Archaeobotanical Evidence Shows Paths of Earliest European Farmers (Research Findings)
09/10/2004:
Research Opportunities (News)
09/10/2004:
The Evolution of Spoken Language: Workshop 2004 (Meetings)
09/10/2004:
Dr. Aimee Plourde to take up two-year research position at CEACB (Visitors)
09/10/2004:
Evolution of Cultural Diversity: a Phylogenetic Approach (Books)
15/09/2004:
AHRB CEACB 2005 Conference Announced (Meetings)
06/09/2004:
How Did Farming Spread into Europe? (Research Findings)
05/09/2004:
Strong Mothers Bear More Sons (Research Findings)
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