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Cultural Commons and Cultural Evolution [PDF]
, 2012 Culture evolves following a process that is akin to biological evolution, although with some significant differences. At the same time culture has often a collective good value for human groups. This paper studies culture in an evolutionary perspective, with a focus on the implications of group definition for the coexistence of different cultures.
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Underappreciated features of cultural evolution [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2020 Cultural evolution theory has long been inspired by evolutionary biology. Conceptual analogies between biological and cultural evolution have led to the adoption of a range of formal theoretical approaches from population dynamics and genetics. However, this has resulted in a research programme with a strong focus on cultural transmission.
Marco Smolla +8 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 Language [PDF]
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Dediu, Dan +10 more
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The cultural evolution of national constitutions [PDF]
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2016 We explore how ideas from infectious disease and genetics can be used to uncover patterns of cultural inheritance and innovation in a corpus of 591 national constitutions spanning 1789–2008. Legal “ideas” are encoded as “topics”—words statistically linked in documents—derived from topic modeling the corpus of constitutions. Using these topics we derive
Daniel N. Rockmore +4 more
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The evolution of cultural diversity in Pama-Nyungan Australia
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsExplaining the processes that produce cultural diversity has long been a focus of anthropological study. Whilst linguistic diversity has frequently been shown to be associated with population splitting during migrations, much less is known about the ...
Duncan Learmouth +2 more
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Universal and cultural factors shape body part vocabularies
Scientific ReportsEvery human has a body. Yet, languages differ in how they divide the body into parts to name them. While universal naming strategies exist, there is also variation in the vocabularies of body parts across languages.
Annika Tjuka +2 more
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Scientific DataThe late Robert L. Carneiro was a prominent anthropologist who devoted his life to the study of political evolution and the evolution of complex societies.
Václav Hrnčíř +2 more
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A comparative wordlist for investigating distant relations among languages in Lowland South America
Scientific DataThe history of the language families in Lowland South America remains an understudied area of historical linguistics. Panoan and Tacanan, two language families from this area, have frequently been proposed to descend from the same ancestor. Despite ample
Frederic Blum +3 more
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Procedural priming of a numerical cognitive illusion
Judgment and Decision Making, 2016 A strategy activated in one task may be transferred to subsequent tasks and prevent activation of other strategies that would otherwise come to mind, a mechanism referred to as procedural priming. In a novel application of procedural priming we show that
Kimmo Eriksson, Fredrik Jansson
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