The year of 2012 has been a good one for Social Evolution and Cliodynamics. We had a wonderful meeting in Frankfurt that celebrated the new stature of Cultural Evolution. The Social Evolution Forum has been developing very nicely (in the next blog I will provide more information). And

How we can reconstruct and visualize history has been much on my mind this week (when I was not consuming and digesting turkey, that is). First, I ran another micro-workshop on Monday and Tuesday. While during the last week’s workshop we designed the overall architecture of the databa

Wednesday and Thursday I ran a workshop in my lab. I call these gettings-together ‘micro-workshops,’ because there may be as few as 4-5 people, or as many as 10 (but not more). Many years ago, when I was hired by my university, I asked for a laboratory that was set up not as a usual b