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Increasing population size can inhibit cumulative cultural evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019Nicolas Fay, Christine Caldwell
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The cultural evolution of cultural evolution [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 Abstract 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.
Jonathan Birch, Cecilia Heyes
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The cultural evolution of teaching. [PDF]
Evol Hum Sci, 2023 AbstractTeaching is an important process of cultural transmission. Some have argued that human teaching is a cognitive instinct – a form of ‘natural cognition’ centred on mindreading, shaped by genetic evolution for the education of juveniles, and with a normative developmental trajectory driven by the unfolding of a genetically inherited ...
Brandl E, Mace R, Heyes C.
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Underappreciated features of cultural evolution [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 Marco Smolla +2 more
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Scientific Data, 2022 Measurement(s) expressions Technology Type(s) data aggregation Factor Type(s) none Sample Characteristic - Organism human language Sample Characteristic - Location global ...
Johann-Mattis List +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Despite playing a pivotal role in the inception of animal culture studies, macaque social learning is surprisingly understudied. Social learning is important to survival and influenced by dominance and affiliation in social animals. Individuals generally
Ivan Garcia-Nisa +2 more
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Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022 Heather Williams, Robert F Lachlan
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The role of population size in folk tune complexity
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 Demography, particularly population size, plays a key role in cultural complexity. However, the relationship between population size and complexity appears to vary across domains: while studies of technology typically find a positive correlation, the ...
Sally E. Street +2 more
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