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Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA): a dataset of 52 languages
Scientific Data, 2023 Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA) is a resource capturing two snapshots of the grammatical structure of a diverse range of languages separated in time, aimed at furthering research on historical linguistics, language evolution, and cultural change ...
Frederic Blum +4 more
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Open Research Europe, 2022 Although lexical borrowing is an important aspect of language evolution, there have been few attempts to automate the identification of borrowings in lexical datasets.
Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List
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Cultural evolution and population thinking from The cultural evolution of cultural evolution
, 2021 What makes fast, cumulative cultural evolution work? Where did it come from? Why is it the sole preserve of humans? We set out a self-assembly hypothesis: cultural evolution evolved culturally. We present an evolutionary account that shows this hypothesis to be coherent, plausible, and worthy of further investigation. It has the following steps: (0) in
Birch, Jonathan, Heyes, Cecilia
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Dogs display owner-specific expectations based on olfaction
Scientific Reports, 2021 Most current knowledge about dogs’ understanding of, and reacting to, their environment is limited to the visual or auditory modality, but it remains unclear how olfaction and cognition are linked together.
Juliane Bräuer, Damian Blasi
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Homophily, Cultural Drift and the Co-Evolution of Cultural Groups [PDF]
, 2006 In studies of cultural differentiation, the joint mechanisms of homophily and influence have been able to explain how distinct cultural groups can form.
Centola, Damon +3 more
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, 2013 Leading scholars report on current research that demonstrates the central role of cultural evolution in explaining human behavior. Over the past few decades, a growing body of research has emerged from a variety of disciplines to highlight the importance of cultural evolution in understanding human behavior.
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Banking on cooperation: an evolutionary analysis of microfinance loan repayment behaviour
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 Microfinance is an economic development tool that provides loans to low-income borrowers to stimulate economic growth and reduce financial hardship. Lenders typically require joint liability, where multiple borrowers share the responsibility of repaying ...
Stefan Gehrig +2 more
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Cross correlations of the American baby names [PDF]
, 2015 The quantitative description of cultural evolution is a challenging task. The most difficult part of the problem is probably to find the appropriate measurable quantities that can make more quantitative such evasive concepts as, for example, dynamics of ...
Barucca, Paolo +4 more
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Computer-Assisted Language Comparison: State of the Art
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2020 Historical language comparison opens windows onto a human past, long before the availability of written records. Since traditional language comparison within the framework of the comparative method is largely based on manual data comparison, requiring ...
Mei-Shin Wu +4 more
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The spontaneous formation of stereotypes via cumulative cultural evolution [PDF]
, 2014 All people share knowledge of cultural stereotypes of social groups—but what are the origins of these stereotypes? We examined whether stereotypes form spontaneously as information is repeatedly passed from person to person.
Cunningham, Sheila J. +5 more
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