The landmark 2016 discovery of the HOLON/parton structure of all units of culture - deriving from a 2016 PhD study, and first published in the book `Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications’ (2016) - has since been applied in other domains of culture, being subsequently republished in the `Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology’ (2017, 4th edition), also `Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulation, and Human-Computer Interaction’ (2019), and the `Encyclopedia of Creativity’ (2020, 3rd edition). This powerful new tool - integrating the Three Laws of HOLON/partons - enables scientific identification and analysis of units of culture, including Numerals (Mathematics); Words (Languages); Narremes / units of story (Narratives); Transmedia (Narrative); Movies (Cinema); Television (Screen Media); Novels (Prose Fiction Books); Factual Literature (Prose Non-Fiction Books); Videogames (Games);; Plays (Theater); Popular Song (Music); Poems (Literature); Jokes (Standup Comedy); Paintings (Visual Art); Myths (Narrative); (Adaptive Fictions); Conspiracy Theories (Adaptive Fictions); Scientific Models/Theories (Science); Ideologies (Political, Economic, Religious); Inventions (Technology); Art (Communication Media); Values & Ethics. When used in conjunction with the Fractal Systems Meta-model of Bio-cultural Evolutionary Creativity, these two scientific models enable examination of the units, levels and mechanisms of cultural evolution, in any domain in culture. The 5 prior book chapters on this discovery (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) are currently being expanded to a full-length book (due for release, November 2021). This talk presents these two new scientific models - as powerful tools - for use by students, scholars, and scientists of Cultural Evolution.

The HOLON/parton structure of units of culture, and Evolutionary Culturology

**Paper ID:** AB00002       
**Paper title:** Exploring the Descendant-Leaving Theory: A study of ancestor manipulation, ancestor-descendant conflict, and extended kinship ancestor worship in China   
**Author:** R T Nichols      

**Paper ID:** AB00005     
**Paper title:** Evolution of Science as an Example of Cultural Evolution   
**Author:** Burton Voorhees      

**Paper ID:** AB00016        
**Paper title:** The Impact of Values on Leadership Style and Culture Development    
**Author:** Kathryn Alexander        

**Paper ID:** AB00042      
**Paper title:** Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and Stated Attitudes about Men's Violence against Women    
**Author:** Jeffrey Swindle      

**Paper ID:** AB00046      
**Paper title:** The HOLON/parton structure of units of culture, and Evolutionary Culturology   
**Author:** Joseph Tesla Velikovsky     

**Paper ID:** AB00051     
**Paper title:** Examining Cultural Evolution with Contextual Geometric Structures    
**Author:** Bradly John Alicea     

**Paper ID:** AB00054      
**Paper title:** How can cultural evolution change the study of the apostle Paul?   
**Author:** Nina Kristina Nikki     

**Paper ID:** AB00066     
**Paper title:** Authoritarianism and egalitarianism explained by evolutionary psychology    
**Author:** Agner Fog      

**Paper ID:** AB00085    
**Paper title:** Sociology and Cultural Evolution: Obstacles and Future Directions   
**Author:** Stephen Vaisey     

**Paper ID:** AB00119     
**Paper title:** Why does cultural selection need to be blind?   
**Author:** Ellen Clarke     

**Paper ID:** AB00161    
**Paper title:** SOCIO-SPATIAL PROFILE OF VIOLENCE IN BRAZILIAN SCHOOLS (2009-2018)   
**Author:** Carlos Alberto Travessa Junior      

**Paper ID:** AB00166     
**Paper title:** Charting the Future of Academic Fields with Cultural Evolutionary Trajectories   
**Author:** Jesse Parent     

**Paper ID:** AB00167     
**Paper title:** The Spatial Diffusion of Urban Forms  
**Author:** Patrick Adler    

**Paper ID:** AB00177    
**Paper title:** Active inference, evolutionary transition, and the deep roots of complex societies   
**Author:** Avel Guénin--Carlut     

**Paper ID:** AB00191     
**Paper title:** Cultural Emergentism   
**Author:** Michael Heather     

**Paper ID:** AB00192    
**Paper title:** A Force-based Model of Cultural Evolution with Application to Business Strategy   
**Author:** Peter Compo  

Discussion Session 2

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### Conference Welcome

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