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Cultural evolution

Modeling the Pre-Industrial Roots of Modern Super-Exponential Population Growth

Aaron Jonas Stutz

Frequency of Behavior Witnessed and Conformity in an Everyday Social Context

Nicolas Claidière, Mark Bowler, [ ... ], Andrew Whiten

Persistence of Contrasting Traditions in Cultural Evolution: Unpredictable Payoffs Generate Slower Rates of Cultural Change

Christine A. Caldwell, Roland M. Eve

Considering the Role of Time Budgets on Copy-Error Rates in Material Culture Traditions: An Experimental Assessment

Kerstin Schillinger, Alex Mesoudi, Stephen J. Lycett

Negatively-Biased Credulity and the Cultural Evolution of Beliefs

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

High Selection Pressure Promotes Increase in Cumulative Adaptive Culture

Carolin Vegvari, Robert A. Foley

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

Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira, N. J. Enfield

Population Size and Cultural Evolution in Nonindustrial Food-Producing Societies

Mark Collard, April Ruttle, Briggs Buchanan, Michael J. O’Brien

Effects of Conformism on the Cultural Evolution of Social Behaviour

Lucas Molleman, Ido Pen, Franz J. Weissing

The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books

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

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

Shinya Yamamoto, Tatyana Humle, Masayuki Tanaka

An Experimental Test of the Accumulated Copying Error Model of Cultural Mutation for Acheulean Handaxe Size

Marius Kempe, Stephen Lycett, Alex Mesoudi

The Biological Origin of Linguistic Diversity

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

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