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The cultural evolution of cultural evolution [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 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.
Jonathan Birch, Cecilia Heyes
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Underappreciated features of cultural evolution [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 Cultural evolution theory has long been inspired by evolutionary biology. Conceptual analogies between biological and cultural evolution have led to the adoption of a range of formal theoretical approaches from population dynamics and genetics. However, this has resulted in a research programme with a strong focus on cultural transmission.
Marco Smolla +2 more
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Multilevel cultural evolution: From new theory to practical applications. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Evolutionary science has led to many practical applications of genetic evolution but few practical uses of cultural evolution. This is because the entire study of evolution was gene centric for most of the 20th century, relegating the study and ...
Wilson DS +5 more
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The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: 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 +2 more
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What is cumulative cultural evolution?
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 In recent years, the phenomenon of cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) has become the focus of major research interest in biology, psychology and anthropology.
Alex Mesoudi, Alex Thornton
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Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2019 Popular music offers a rich source of data that provides insights into long-term cultural evolutionary dynamics. One major trend in popular music, as well as other cultural products such as literary fiction, is an increase over time in negatively ...
Charlotte O. Brand +2 more
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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, 2019 Significance Cumulative cultural evolution (CCE)—the social-learning process through which adaptive modifications accumulate over historical time—is crucial to the advancement of the human species, and yet little is known about the factors important to ...
Nicolas Fay +2 more
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Cultural selection and biased transformation: two dynamics of cultural evolution
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 Alex Mesoudi
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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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Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research [PDF]
Artificial Life, 2022 The goal of Artificial Life research, as articulated by Chris Langton, is “to contribute to theoretical biology by locating life-as-we-know-it within the larger picture of life-as-it-could-be.” The study and pursuit of open-ended evolution in artificial ...
James M. Borg +5 more
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