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Cultural evolution

Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items

Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira, N. J. Enfield

The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books

Alberto Acerbi, Vasileios Lampos, Philip Garnett, R. Alexander Bentley

The Logic of Fashion Cycles

Alberto Acerbi, Stefano Ghirlanda, Magnus Enquist

From Traditional Medicine to Witchcraft: Why Medical Treatments Are Not Always Efficacious

Mark M. Tanaka, Jeremy R. Kendal, Kevin N. Laland

Characterizing the Google Books Corpus: Strong Limits to Inferences of Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Evolution

Eitan Adam Pechenick, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds

Basis for Cumulative Cultural Evolution in Chimpanzees: Social Learning of a More Efficient Tool-Use Technique

Shinya Yamamoto, Tatyana Humle, Masayuki Tanaka

Classic Maya Bloodletting and the Cultural Evolution of Religious Rituals: Quantifying Patterns of Variation in Hieroglyphic Texts

Jessica Munson, Viviana Amati, Mark Collard, Martha J. Macri

The Pace of Cultural Evolution

Charles Perreault

Political Institutions and Their Historical Dynamics

Mikael Sandberg, Per Lundberg

Migration, acculturation, and the maintenance of between-group cultural variation

Alex Mesoudi

The Biological Origin of Linguistic Diversity

Andrea Baronchelli, Nick Chater, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Morten H. Christiansen

Negatively-Biased Credulity and the Cultural Evolution of Beliefs

Daniel M. T. Fessler, Anne C. Pisor, Carlos David Navarrete

Variable Cultural Acquisition Costs Constrain Cumulative Cultural Evolution

Alex Mesoudi

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