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Events of Interest :
HECC's first course is being offered this winter at UBC: ASTU 204A
HECC 2009/2010 Seminars series posted here.
Recent Events,
Publications and Press:Integrating Science and Humanities
Sept 2008
Website and videos
Nitobe Memorial Gardens UBCMission
Over the last 150 years biology has been transformed by the adoption of Darwinian evolutionary theory to such an extent that, as the well-known geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky once put it, “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”. The extension of Darwin’s insights to humans has been more halting and controversial. However, there has been a major upsurge of interest in the evolutionary analysis of human phenomena in recent years, and it is now abundantly clear that Darwinian theory can be productively applied to many of the puzzles that scholars in the humanities and social sciences have long sought to explain, such as perception, ethics and culture. It is also obvious that Darwinian theory can shed new light on important social and health issues, including prejudice, interpersonal violence and schizophrenia. Given the growing popularity and success of human evolutionary studies as a field, there is now every reason to think that it will be one of the central research agendas of the 21st century.
Our purpose in establishing the Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition, and Culture (HECC) is to create a research and training hub that will simultaneously advance understanding of the human species within the framework of Darwinian evolutionary theory and maximize the contribution of UBC and SFU researchers to this rapidly developing field. The Centre will accomplish these goals by fostering collaborative relationships among faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, and between these individuals and researchers in other parts of British Columbia and around the world; by supporting cutting-edge research projects, especially those that are interdisciplinary in nature; by providing undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with world-class training that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries; and by disseminating the results of its members’ research to academics in other fields, policymakers and the public both directly and through the media.
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