User talk:Bdconley

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Bdconley! I am Gypsyjiver and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. Thank you for your contributions. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions check out Questions, or feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or type helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. Again, welcome! — GypsyJiver  ( drop me a line ) 21:34, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
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Critical period hypothesis
The Critical period hypothesis article has been in need of work for a long time - thank you very much for your edits! I'm working on-and-off on some of the pages on second language acquisition, so if you have any questions please ask me on my talk page. All the best! — GypsyJiver  ( drop me a line ) 21:37, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

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Request for removal of redirect and creation of independent Cultural Evolution page
With all due respect to the authors of the Sociocultural Evolution page, I would recommend that the redirect of the Cultural Evolution page to the Sociocultural Evolution page be removed. This is an encyclopedia for all disciplines, for both novice and professional, therefore the inter-disciplinary nature of Cultural Evolution should be respected and an independent page should be created.

Although it is true that many Sociology programs in academic institutions include the subject of Cultural Evolution as part of their Sociology curriculum, this does not constitute a consensus that Cultural Evolution is a sub-discipline to Sociology. To relegate all information regarding Cultural Evolution only to those aspects which are either of interest to Sociology or which are currently endorsed by sociologists is to flirt with rewriting history by the sin of omission. Cultural Evolution is a rich, inter-disciplinary sub-set of the discipline of evolutionary science, itself an inter-disciplinary science as well. While a multidisciplinary portal for evolution would be helpful on Wikipedia, currently the only portal is the Evolutionary Biology portal, which is heavy on the biology and light on the interdisciplinary perspective. Like Sociology, Cultural Evolution is so broad a category that it requires a multi-disciplinary effort to contain the emerging theories and research.

It is good to note that both large and small encyclopedia publishers have the following subjects headings and classifications for Cultural Evolution, Social Evolution, and Sociocultural Evolution in their most recent encyclopedic publications on the subject:

Oxford Encyclopedia of Evolution (2002)

 * Cultural Evolution (full article | subcategory: Cultural Transmission | bibliography | index heading)
 * Social Evolution (full article | bibliography | index heading)
 * Sociocultural Evolution (no listing)

Facts on File Encyclopedia of Evolution (2007)

 * Cultural Evolution (no article heading| index heading: found in reference to gene-culture coevolution)
 * Social Evolution (no article heading | index heading: found in reference to convergence and Neanderthal culture)
 * Sociocultural Evolution (no listing)

Academically, programs are emerging globally under the heading of “cultural evolution.” Typical is the the new program at Stockholm University, which is an interdisciplinary doctoral program involving the departments of Archeaology, Linguistics, Zoology, Mathematics and Physics. At least since 2006, contemporary scholars, such as Alex Mesoudi, now at Queen Mary, Univ of London, have been advocating in formal papers for a “unified science in cultural evolution” to handle the enormous amount of new research and interest in cultural evolution as a discipline in itself. Mesoudi has just published an extensive text “Cultural Evolution,” as well. But in none of these developments is Sociology more than a partner discipline, at best. Sociology is not considered by a consensus of scientists and scholars of the many disciplines to be the “umbrella” discipline for Cultural Evolution. Most interest for Cultural Evolution has come from sociobiology, cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology, to name only a few of the disciplines that have recently published extensively in this category.

I would like permission to disconnect the redirect and reestablish “Cultural Evolution” as an independent page. Links between this new page and the existing page for Sociocultural Evolution will remain where appropriate to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of cultural evolutionary studies. I have no argument that Cultural Evolution is part of the study of Sociology, but merging with the Sociocultural Evolution page does not reflect the history or current research of this field.

Thank you.

Bdconley (talk) 00:09, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Molodowsky page
Hello, I am also interested in working on the Kadya Molodowsky page. Are you still working on it/would you mind if worked on it as well? Thanks. Rh236 (talk) 18:55, 4 May 2014 (UTC)Rh236