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Structure without semantics: no evidence for bonobo compositionality in Berthet et al. (2025) [PDF]
PeerJUnderstanding the evolutionary origins of combinatorial communication has motivated studies that analyse the semantic capacities of great ape vocal repertoires. A prominent example is the study by Berthet et al. (2025), which used Multiple Correspondence
Andreas Wartel +6 more
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Introduction. Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour [PDF]
, 2008 The articles in this theme issue seek to understand the evolutionary bases of social learning and the consequences of cultural transmission for the evolution of human behaviour.
Lewandowsky, Stephan +10 more
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From social learning to culture : mathematical and computational models of cultural evolution [PDF]
, 2013 Humans are unique in the extent and complexity of their cultures. As a species, we generate extensive knowledge and innumerable norms, attitudes, traditions, skills, beliefs and technologies that we share with those around us through teaching, imitation ...
Fogarty, Laurel
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, 2023 Many cultural phenomena cannot be understood by studying traits in isolation. Instead, they are embedded in webs of relations, layered with rich social meaning, and sequentially acquired and evaluated, filtered, in light of previously acquired traits ...
Jansson, Fredrik, +2 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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, 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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Social Learning and Cultural Evolution in Artificial Life [PDF]
, 2018 We describe the questions and discussions raised at the First Workshop on Social Learning and Cultural Evolution held at the Artificial Life Conference 2016 in Cancun, Mexico in July 2016.
Borg, James +12 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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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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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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