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The cultural evolution and ecology of institutions
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2021 Human societies are structured by what we refer to as ‘institutions’, which are socially created and culturally inherited proscriptions on behaviour that define roles and set expectations about social interactions.
Thomas E. Currie +6 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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Hunter-gatherer multilevel sociality accelerates cumulative cultural evolution
Science Advances, 2020 Hunter-gatherers from different bands form fluid social networks that facilitate cultural innovation through recombination of cultural traditions. Although multilevel sociality is a universal feature of human social organization, its functional relevance
A. Migliano +11 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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Cumulative Cultural Evolution within Evolving Population Structures.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020 Our species has the peculiar ability to accumulate cultural innovations over multiple generations, a phenomenon termed 'cumulative cultural evolution' (CCE). Recent years have seen a proliferation of empirical and theoretical work exploring the interplay
Maxime Derex, A. Mesoudi
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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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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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