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Climate Migration comes to Maine
Maine has struggled for an entire decade to barely maintain it’s population size, even as the state continued to age. This demography double whammy causes a severe ‘brain drain’ problem, and has hurt Maine’s economy, and cultural diversity. However, things started to change with the pandemic. And now, climate migration might continue to bring younger people, more labor, more talent, and more cultural diversity to Maine. Continue reading
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Waring gives invited lecture at Contagion on Complex Social Systems workshop at University of Vermont
The lecture “How Social Learning and Cultural Evolution can add to the study of Social Contagion,” reviewed classic models of cultural transmission, and current research in social learning in humans and other animals to provide a buffet of ways in which researchers can incorporate more naturalistic mechanisms of social transmission in models and research. Continue reading
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Waring leads KLI working group “Evolutionary Theories for Social-Ecological Change”
Our working group aims to connect the domains of evolutionary theory and social-ecological systems change to improve our collective ability to understand and influence the complex processes of change in social-ecological systems for the better. Our working group has been … Continue reading
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Waring and Schlüter to lead final meeting of KLI Working Group in Austria
2023-04-17 – 2023-04-21 In April, Dr. Tim Waring will lead the final meeting of a working group at the KLI (Konrad Lorenz Institute), an Independent Center of Advanced Studies in the Life and Sustainability Sciences in Klosterneuburg, Austria. The working … Continue reading
ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory 