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> Subject: CONF: Symposium on Darwinian Evolution
> From: Michael Dietrich <[log in to unmask]>
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> The Department of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College will be holding a symposium entitled
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> DARWINIAN EVOLUTION ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES.
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> The symposium will be held on 29-30 October 1999, at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.  The symposium is free.  Please register at our website (listed below).
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> This symposium will explore the application of Darwinian evolutionary ideas fields outside biology.  We have assembled a distinguished list of participants, and we hope you can attend.  For more information see
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> http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dead99/
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> Titles and participants are
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> The Success of Science and Social Norms
>    David Hull (Northwestern University)
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> Biological Evolution and Cultural History
>    Richard Lewontin (Harvard University)
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> Computing a la Darwin: Theory and Applications of Evolutionary Computation
>    Melanie Mitchell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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> Darwinian Medicine: The Pleasures and Perils of New Questions
>     Randolph Nesse (University of Michigan)
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> Post-Darwinian Economics and Cumulative Causation: A Veblenian Perspective
>      Geoffrey Hodgson (Cambridge University)
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> Cultural Evolution Is Darwinian
>      Peter Richerson (University of California, Davis)
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> Religious Groups as Adaptive Units
>       David Sloan Wilson (Binghamton University)
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> Why We Need An Evolutionary Psychology
>       Denise Cummins (University of California, Davis)