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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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, 2021 The universality and diversity of music in human societies make it an important research model for understanding how cultural features change over time and space. In this chapter, we review research on the cultural evolution of music, broken down into three major approaches: 1) corpus-based approaches that use large datasets to infer evolutionary ...
Mason Youngblood +2 more
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Cultural evolution of addiction [PDF]
Dusunen Adam: The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological SciencesMutlu E.
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Software cultures and evolution [PDF]
Computer, 2001 To work effectively with legacy code, software engineers need to understand a legacy computer program's culture - the combination of the programmer's background, the hardware environment and the programming techniques that guided its creation. Software systems typically pass through a series of stages.
Václav Rajlich +3 more
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The Cultural Evolution of Religion [PDF]
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Bulbulia, Joseph +16 more
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Cultural evolution of genetic heritability [PDF]
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020 Abstract Behavioral genetics and cultural evolution have both revolutionized our understanding of human behavior – largely independent of each other. Here, we reconcile these two fields under a dual inheritance framework, offering a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between genes and culture.
Ryutaro Uchiyama +2 more
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Unknotting the interactive effects of learning processes on cultural evolutionary dynamics
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2019 Forms of non-random copying error provide sources of inherited variation yet their effects on cultural evolutionary dynamics are poorly understood. Focusing on variation in granny and reef knot forms, we present a mathematical model that specifies how ...
Lauren A. Scanlon +3 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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Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 2011 The goal of cross-cultural psychology to identify and explain similarities and differences in the behavior of individuals in different cultures requires linking human behavior to its context (Cole, Meshcheryakov & Ponomariov, 2011). In order to specify this relation, the focus is usually on the sociocultural environment and how it interacts with ...
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Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data
Open Research EuropeLarge-scale lexical and grammatical datasets nowadays play an important role in comparative linguistics. However, the lack of standardization remains a challenge exacerbating extension and reuse of published data.
Frederic Blum +6 more
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