Featured Presentations
2009
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The tendency of governments to cut funding to cultural organizations in times of fiscal restraint suggests that, for some, culture is a frivolous pursuit. How much more frivolous, then, is cultural...
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Unlike disembodied AI programs, robots are embedded in the same physical world as humans and other animals. Like animals, they must act appropriately - we say "with intelligence" - to achieve their goals...
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My undergraduate training was in archaeology. Subsequently, I gained a PhD in hominin palaeontology. Over the last 10 years, I have attempted to bridge these two disciplines by addressing questions...
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A Darwinian perspective sheds light on why we are impatient, that is, why we discount future rewards. This evolutionary explanation derives from our basic demography during our history as hunter-gatherers...
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Recent studies show that along with single nucleotide polymorphisms and small indels, larger structural variants among human individuals are common. The Human Genome Structural Variation Project aims to...