An interdisciplinary approach to understanding society’s most pressing problems.
For more than 35 years, Gruter Institute has brought together academics and practitioners from diverse fields to exchange knowledge and foster collaboration across disciplines.
Matt Ridley at our Squaw Valley Conference
“Gruter is great gathering of smart people, a flurry of interesting ideas, and the calm wisdom to distill it.â€
Matt Ridley, Bestselling Author
Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
The Evolution of Everything, The Rational Optimist
Our Collaborative Labs
We invite an extended network of academics and practitioners to engage in cutting edge research and publication in interdisciplinary frontiers. Our Collaborative Labs bring new insights to challenges ranging from pandemic policy, understanding innovation, leadership, environmental regulation, and artificial intelligence.
Human Behavior and Leadership
Open Science: Big Data, Disciplinary Diversity and Open Inquiry
Evolution of Cooperation
The Impact of AI: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
Embedding of Law in Technology
Isolation and Impersonal Interaction in a Digital, Post-Pandemic Society
The Evolution of Regulation and 
its Impact on Innovation
Events
150+ Events Inclusive of Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Panel Discussions, Workshops, and Symposia
Since its founding in 1981, the Gruter Institute has partnered with leading universities and institutions and gathered leading specialists in myriad fields including law, economics, and evolutionary biology to share their recent research. The proceedings of many of our events have been published in a wide array of books and academic journals worldwide.Â
Most Recent Events
163. Â Mismatch II: Evolving Slowly, Changing Fast: Human Behavior and Evolutionary MismatchÂ
162. Â Evolving Slowly, Changing Fast: Human Behavior and Evolutionary MismatchÂ
161. KissCon II: The Evolution of Kissing and Adaptive Trade-offs in Human Contact: Perspectives in Evolutionary Biology, Immunology, Human Behavior, and Implications for the Increasingly Isolated Digital Age
35+ Years
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