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24 March 2025
Akito Miyoshi was awarded a MSc for his thesis "A cultural evolutionary model of attribute-dependent punishment."
28 February 2025
Shun Kurokawa (Osaka University) talked about logic.
20 February 2025
 The third printing of the book "In Pursuit of Human Nature" (edited by Y. Ihara, M. Umezaki, and M. Yoneda) was released.
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20 January 2025
Yuri Nishikawa was awarded a PhD for his thesis "Human genetic diversity and cultural evolution of music in the Ryukyu Archipelago."
20 November 2024
 The third printing of the book "Language and Mind" (edited by K. Okanoya, illustrated by Y. Noda), to which Y. Ihara contributed as an author, was released.
BiblioPlaza
1 November 2024
Kenji Itao (RIKEN) talked about his study to reveal underlying princples of the emergence of human social structures.
5 July 2024
Tadashi Yanai (University of Tokyo) talked about his perspective on anthropology and its changes over the years, from cultural anthropology of 1980's to the field known today as the "anthropology of nature."
30 June 2024
The second printing of the book "Language and Mind" (edited by K. Okanoya, illustrated by Y. Noda), to which Y. Ihara contributed as an author, was released.
BiblioPlaza
21 June 2024
Sae Nakamura (University of Tokyo) gave a talk about her work on Vadihiti Nivasa (Home for Elders) in Sri Lanka and discussed what kind of learning fieldwork brings to a cultural anthropologist.
21 March 2024
MScs were awarded to Soichiro Hirata for his thesis "Evolutionary models of maladaptive rite-of-passage cultures," and to Yukiko Kawanishi for her thesis "The coexistence of resource, foragers, and producers."
22 December 2023
 Phylogenetic Analysis Workshop (Intelligence and Cultural Evolution Theory) was held in Tokyo (Organizers: K. Kubo, E. Nakamura, H. Matsumae, and K. Tamura).
20 June 2023
The second printing of the book "In Pursuit of Human Nature" (edited by Y. Ihara, M. Umezaki, and M. Yoneda) was released.
Science Library | BiblioPlaza
12 April 2023
Satoshi Sano (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) talked about his analysis on the minimum viable population and the evolutionary rate in interstellar migrations.
7 April 2023
Mayuko Nakamaru (Tokyo Institute of Technology) gave a lecture on the evolution of cooperation and an evolutionary approach to the issue of rice-field abandonment.
23 March 2023
MScs were awarded to Yukari Hanada for her thesis "Mathematical biological study of the evolution of food sharing in hunter-gatherers," and to Kyosuke Kubo for his thesis "The phylogeny of hebimuko folktale."
20 February 2023
 Kohei Tamura's (Tohoku University) book was published from PHP.
6 January 2023
Noa Nishimoto (Kyoto University) presented her field research on numerals and color terms, and discussed their implications to how people recognize the presence and absence of beings.
17-18 December 2022
 Commemorative Symposium for the 37th International Prize for Biology, "Human Origins and the Future of the Earth"
27 October 2022
Michel Raymond (University of Montpellier) gave a seminar about the evolution of homosexual preference in humans.
21 October 2022
 "Co-creating the Future of Evolutionary Linguistics" (K. Okanoya and K. Fujita eds., Hituzi Books), to which Yudai Tokumasu and Yasuo Ihara contributed as authors, was published.
5-8 September 2022
Joint Conference on Language Evolution was held in Kanazawa.
15 July 2022
Takuya Matsumoto (Shinshu University) talked about his study on the life history and society of wild chimpanzees and ongoing field work on Japanese macaques.
8 July 2022
Hiroki Koda (University of Tokyo) gave a lecture on the evolutionary pathways from primate vocalization to human speech.
25 November 2021
 An article featuring Emily Emmott, Masahito Morita, and their research on adolescence in England and Japan was published in Futurum Careers.
16 July 2021
Shoko Konishi (University of Tokyo) talked about her studies on biological and behavioral factors affecting human fertility and fecundity.
10 June 2021
Shun Kurokawa (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) was awarded Young Scientist Initiative Award by Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan.
9-11 June 2021
The Third Cultural Evolution Society Conference was held online.
21 May 2021
Yohsuke Ohtsubo (University of Tokyo) talked about an intention signaling strategy to establish cooperation by indirect reciprocity.
1 May 2021
 A book on evolution and human behavior, to which Masahito Morita contributed an article, was published (R. Oda et al. eds., Asakura Shoten).
Book review by Y. Ihara
23 March 2021
Alexandre Suire (University of the Ryukyus) talked about evolution of vocal modulation, sex-biased sound symbolism, and his ongoing study on group behavior in anubis baboons.
22 March 2021
A new textbook of physical anthropology (edited by Y. Ihara, M. Umezaki, and M. Yoneda) was published.
Science Library | BiblioPlaza
19 March 2021
Takuya Takahashi was awarded a PhD for his thesis "A mathematical model of cultural evolution on a population network and its application to the analysis of spatial distribution of dialects."
5 August 2020
 An article by Yasuo Ihara and co-authors was featured in UTokyo FOCUS.
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9 April 2020
 Kohei Tamura's (Tohoku University) book "Mathematics of Cultural Evolution" was published.
23 March 2020
Mika Igarashi was awarded a MSc for her thesis "A simulation analysis on the within-population diversity and innovation."
10 February 2020
Damián Blasi (Harvard University) gave a seminar "Rethinking linguistic diversity: when, how and why languages change."
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