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Peer learning and cultural evolution
Child Development Perspectives, 2023 In this article, we integrate cultural evolutionary theory with empirical research from developmental psychology, cultural anthropology, and primatology to explore the role of peer learning in the development of complex instrumental skills and behavioral
Sheina Lew‐Levy +10 more
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Enquire within: cultural evolution and cognitive science
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Cecilia Heyes
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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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Understanding hunter-gatherer cultural evolution needs network thinking.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022 Hunter-gatherers past and present live in complex societies, and the structure of these can be assessed using social networks. We outline how the integration of new evidence from cultural evolution experiments, computer simulations, ethnography, and ...
Javier Fernández-López de Pablo +8 more
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Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2021 In studies of cumulative cultural evolution in non-human animals, the focus is most often on incremental changes that increase the efficacy of an existing form of socially learned behaviour, such as the refinement of migratory pathways. In this paper, we
H. Williams, R. 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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The cultural evolution of language [PDF]
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2016 Human language has unusual structural properties that enable open-ended communication. In recent years, researchers have begun to appeal to cultural evolution to explain the emergence of these structural properties. A particularly fruitful approach to this kind of explanation has been the use of laboratory experiments.
Tamariz, Monica, Kirby, Simon
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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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The Evolution of the Diversity of Cultures [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011 The abundant evidence that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa within the past 200 000 years, and dispersed across the world only within the past 100 000 years, provides us with a strong framework in which to consider the evolution of human diversity.
R A, Foley, M Mirazón, Lahr
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