“The Blank Slate” subject

The conference is devoted to problems of social evolution, natural selection and social theory, evolution of selfish genetic elements. It is really "tabula rasa" sphere in the science, thus it presents wide spectrum of possibilities for future scientific work.

On the conference there will be represented works of such scientists as Steven Pinker, Robert Trivers, Robert Trivers, Margo Wilson and Martin Daly, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, Douglas Mock, Napoleon Chagnon and others.

You will have a chance to be acquainted with subjects of newly emerging field of evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology weaves together cognitive science, human evolution, hunter gatherer studies, neuroscience, psychology and evolutionary biology. All these topics are being developed in an attempt to understand and map the human mind and brain.

Modern science shows that it is significant to discover mental mechanisms that no one had thought to look for before. For example, theories about the evolution of reciprocation.

Specialists in integrating cognitive science, cultural anthropology, evolutionary biology, paleoanthropology, cognitive neuroscience, and hunter-gatherer will narrate about up-to-date researches in this sphere and tendencies of future development. The main goal for today is to create the new field of evolutionary psychology. The goal of evolutionary psychology is the progressive mapping of the universal evolved cognitive and neural architecture that constitutes human nature, and provides the basis of the learning mechanisms responsible for culture.