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Brain, mind and culture in evolutionary perspective [ABSTRACT]
Steven Mithen (Reading)

Deacon’s dilemma: how to cope with risks of mate desertion in fission-fusion social systems [ABSTRACT]
Robin Dunbar (Oxford)

What is cognition? Distributed cognition and the mark of the cognitive [ABSTRACT]
Mark Rowlands (Miami)

Some functions of collective forgetting [ABSTRACT]
Paul Connerton (Cambridge)

Discussion

Fission and fusion in primates and humans [ABSTRACT]
Julia Lehmann (Roehampton)

Fission-fusion behaviour in chimpanzees and human hunter-gatherers [ABSTRACT]
Robert Layton (Durham) and Sean O’Hara (Liverpool)

When individuals do not stop at the skin [ABSTRACT]
Alan Barnard (Edinburgh)

The structure of social networks
Sam Roberts (Oxford)

From experiential-based to conceptual-based forms of social organisation [ABSTRACT]
Dwight Read (UCLA)

Discussion

Wine Reception

Firing up the imagination [ABSTRACT]
John Gowlett (Liverpool)

Multi tasking and the social brain in mid-Pleistocene
Larry Barham (Liverpool)

Fragmenting hominins and the presencing of Early Palaeolithic social worlds
John Chapman (Durham)

Small worlds, material culture and Near Eastern social networks [ABSTRACT]
Fiona Coward (RHUL)

Networks and the evolution of socio-material differentiation [ABSTRACT]
Carl Knappett (Exeter)

Technologies of separation and the evolution of social extension[ABSTRACT]
Clive Gamble (RHUL)

Discussion

Cliques, coalitions, comrades and colleagues [ABSTRACT]
Holly Arrow (Oregon)

Social networks and community in the Viking Age [ABSTRACT]
Anna Wallette (Lund)

Evolutionary signalling theory and religion [ABSTRACT]
Richard Sosis (Connecticutt)

Discussion

Summing up
Leslie Aiello (Wenner-Gren Fdn, New York)