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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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The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2021 Modern phylogenetic methods are increasingly being used to address questions about macro-level patterns in cultural evolution. These methods can illuminate the unobservable histories of cultural traits and identify the evolutionary drivers of trait ...
Cara L. Evans +6 more
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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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When does cultural evolution become cumulative culture? A case study of humpback whale song
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2021 Culture presents a second inheritance system by which innovations can be transmitted between generations and among individuals. Some vocal behaviours present compelling examples of cultural evolution.
Ellen C. Garland, C. Garrigue, M. Noad
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Analogy as a Catalyst for Cumulative Cultural Evolution.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021 Analogies, broadly defined, map novel concepts onto familiar concepts, making them essential for perception, reasoning, and communication. We argue that analogy-building served a critical role in the evolution of cumulative culture by allowing humans to ...
C. Brand, A. Mesoudi, P. Smaldino
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When do people prefer dominant over prestigious political leaders?
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 Previous research has sought to explain the rise of right-wing populist leaders in terms of the evolutionary framework of dominance and prestige. In this framework, dominance is defined as high social rank acquired via coercion and fear, and prestige is ...
Ángel V. Jiménez +2 more
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Open Research Europe, 2023 Language comparison requires user-friendly tools that facilitate the standardization of linguistic data. We present two resources built on the basis of a standardized cross-linguistic format and show how the data is curated and extended.
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Open Research Europe, 2023 Language comparison requires user-friendly tools that facilitate the standardization of linguistic data. We present two resources built on the basis of a standardized cross-linguistic format and show how the data is curated and extended.
Robert Forkel +2 more
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Games, 2021 Human cooperation, occurring without reciprocation and between unrelated individuals in large populations, represents an evolutionary puzzle. One potential explanation is that cooperative behaviour may be transmitted between individuals via social ...
Robin Watson +4 more
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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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