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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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Psychological Mechanisms Forged by Cultural Evolution
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2020 The adaptive features of cognitive mechanisms, the features that make them fit for purpose, have traditionally been explained by nature and nurture. In the last decade, evidence has emerged that distinctively human cognitive mechanisms are also, and ...
C. Heyes
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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 evolution in Vietnam’s early 20th century: a Bayesian networks analysis of Franco-Chinese house designs [PDF]
Social Science Research Network, 2019 The study of cultural evolution has taken on an increasingly interdisciplinary and diverse approach in explicating phenomena of cultural transmission and adoptions.
Q. Vuong +8 more
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Treatment Decision‐Making Roles and Preferences Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Decision‐making (DM) dynamics between adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer, parents, and oncologists remain underexplored in diverse populations. We examined cancer treatment DM preferences among an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of AYAs and their parents.
Amanda M. Gutierrez +14 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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Automatic Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns across Multiple Languages [PDF]
Computational Linguistics, 2019 Sound correspondence patterns play a crucial role for linguistic reconstruction. Linguists use them to prove language relationship, to reconstruct proto-forms, and for classical phylogenetic reconstruction based on shared innovations.
Johann-Mattis List
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Open Research Europe, 2022 Bangime is a language isolate, which has not been proven to be genealogically related to any other language family, spoken in Central-Eastern Mali. Its speakers, the Bangande, claim affiliation with the Dogon languages and speakers that surround them ...
Abbie Hantgan +2 more
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Cultural evolution developing its own rules: The rise of conservatism and persuasion [PDF]
, 2006 In the human sciences, cultural evolution is often viewed as an autonomous process free of genetic influence. A question that follows is, If culture is not influenced by genes, can it take any path?
Enquist, Magnus +2 more
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The genetic and cultural evolution of unsustainability
Sustainability Science, 2020 Anthropogenic changes are accelerating and threaten the future of life on earth. While the proximate mechanisms of these anthropogenic changes are well studied (e.g., climate change, biodiversity loss, population growth), the evolutionary causality of ...
Brian F. Snyder
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