LECTURES & LITERATURE

    Culture, Creativity and Adaptation

    Culture, Creativity and Adaptation

    Presented by Penn Humanities Forum at University of Pennsylvania Museum- Harrison Auditorium

    October 12, 2011


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    Can evolutionary science explain human creativity? We like to think of the cultural and creative dimensions of human life as fundamental, timeless, unbounded by hard limits. But evolutionists and psychologists increasingly link human inventiveness to definite forms of mental machinery that have evolved and become more specialized over time. Renowned French anthropologist Pascal Boyer explains how this scientific perspective can account for many features of otherwise puzzling cultural phenomena, from religion to romance.

    A program of the 2011-2012 Penn Humanities Forum on Adaptations.


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        University of Pennsylvania Museum- Harrison Auditorium

        33rd and Spruce Streets
        Philadelphia, PA 19104

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        October 12, 2011

        Times:

        5-6:30 pm

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