Brown Bag Lectures are informal, public talks that are followed by extensive dissussions. Speakers are KLI fellows or visiting researchers who are interested in presenting their work to an interdisciplinary audience and discussing it in a wider research context. The Brown Bag Lecture series was discontinued in 2014 with the KLI moving to its new premises in Klosterneuburg. In 2014 the KLI Colloquia were established as the new lecture series.
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To develop a clearer and deeper theoretical and empirical understanding of the evolutionary mechanisms that produce play and how these mechanisms may be transformed over evolutionary time. This deeper understanding will be achieved by bringing together experts on the (1) neurobehavioral mechanisms of play, (2) comparative analysis of play in diverse taxa, (3) modern statistical methods in comparative biology, and (4) evolutionary computational models of play. Theoretical and conceptual work accomplished will be published in a book that will be the first systematic theoretical, empirical, and conceptual analysis of the evolution of play.
Participants:
- Gordon M. Burghardt (University of Tennessee)
- Sergio M. Pellis (University of Lethbridge)
- Ellsabetta Palagi (University of Pisa)
- Jeffrey Schank (UC Davis)
- Paul Smaldino (UC Merced)
- Louk Vanderschuren (University of Utrecht)
Invited participants only!