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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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‘Viral’ hunts? A cultural Darwinian analysis of witch persecutions [PDF]
, 2019 The theory of Darwinian cultural evolution is gaining currency in many parts of the socio-cultural sciences, but it remains contentious. Critics claim that the theory is either fundamentally mistaken or boils down to a fancy re-description of things we ...
Boudry, Maarten, Hofhuis, Steije
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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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Scientific Reports, 2022 We present the results of a multi-disciplinary investigation on a deciduous human tooth (Pradis 1), recently recovered from the Epigravettian layers of the Grotte di Pradis archaeological site (Northeastern Italian Prealps).
Federico Lugli +15 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 replication and microbial evolution [PDF]
, 2014 The aim of this paper is to argue that cultural evolution is in many ways much more similar to microbial than to macrobial biological evolution.
Nanay, Bence
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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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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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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Blinatumomab has been shown to be highly effective for patients with pediatric B‐ALL and has recently become standard of care therapy. Due to its past use in the clinical trial setting, there is limited information available about real‐world administration.
Katelyn Oranges +12 more
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The emergence and adaptive use of prestige in an online social learning task
Scientific Reports, 2020 Prestige-biased social learning occurs when individuals preferentially learn from others who are highly respected, admired, copied, or attended to in their group.
C. O. Brand +3 more
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