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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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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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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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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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Configuration of Stable Evolutionary Strategy of Homo Sapiens and Evolutionary Risks of Technological Civilization (the Conceptual Model Essay) [PDF]
, 2014 Stable evolutionary strategy of Homo sapiens (SESH) is built in accordance with the modular and hierarchical principle and consists of the same type of self-replicating elements, i.e. is a system of systems.
Cheshko, Valentin T. +2 more
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The Austronesian Game Taxonomy: A cross-cultural dataset of historical games
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 Humans in most cultures around the world play rule-based games, yet research on the content and structure of these games is limited. Previous studies investigating rule-based games across cultures have either focused on a small handful of cultures, thus ...
Sarah M. Leisterer-Peoples +5 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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