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Cultural evolution

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

Aaron Jonas Stutz

published 20 Aug 2014

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Frequency of Behavior Witnessed and Conformity in an Everyday Social Context

Nicolas Claidière, Mark Bowler, Sarah Brookes, Rebecca Brown, Andrew Whiten

published 20 Jun 2014

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

Christine A. Caldwell, Roland M. Eve

published 18 Jun 2014

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

Kerstin Schillinger, Alex Mesoudi, Stephen J. Lycett

published 08 May 2014

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Negatively-Biased Credulity and the Cultural Evolution of Beliefs

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

published 15 Apr 2014

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High Selection Pressure Promotes Increase in Cumulative Adaptive Culture

Carolin Vegvari, Robert A. Foley

published 29 Jan 2014

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

Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira, N. J. Enfield

published 08 Nov 2013

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Population Size and Cultural Evolution in Nonindustrial Food-Producing Societies

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

published 12 Sep 2013

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Effects of Conformism on the Cultural Evolution of Social Behaviour

Lucas Molleman, Ido Pen, Franz J. Weissing

published 10 Jul 2013

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The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books

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

published 20 Mar 2013

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

Shinya Yamamoto, Tatyana Humle, Masayuki Tanaka

published 30 Jan 2013

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

Marius Kempe, Stephen Lycett, Alex Mesoudi

published 08 Nov 2012

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The Biological Origin of Linguistic Diversity

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

published 30 Oct 2012

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