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The evolutionary dynamics of how languages signal who does what to whom
Scientific ReportsLanguages vary in how they signal “who does what to whom”. Three main strategies to indicate the participant roles of “who” and “whom” are case, verbal indexing, and rigid word order.
Olena Shcherbakova +5 more
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Aversive medical treatments signal a need for support: a mathematical model
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2019 Ineffective, aversive and harmful medical treatments are common cross-culturally, historically and today. Using evolutionary game theory, we develop the following model to explain their persistence.
Mícheál de Barra +2 more
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Lexical data for the historical comparison of Rgyalrongic languages
Open Research Europe, 2023 As one of the most morphologically conservative branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family, most of the Rgyalrongic languages are still understudied and poorly understood, not to mention their vulnerable or endangered status.
Yunfan Lai, Johann-Mattis List
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Innateness and culture in the evolution of language [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006 Human language arises from biological evolution, individual learning, and cultural transmission, but the interaction of these three processes has not been widely studied. We set out a formal framework for analyzing cultural transmission, which allows us to investigate how innate learning biases are related to universal properties of language.
Simon, Kirby +2 more
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Scientific ReportsFire plays a central role in human evolution and site formation, yet its impact on the preservation of microscopic use-wear remains poorly understood.
Alice Rodriguez +3 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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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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PROBLEMS OF CULTURAL EVOLUTION [PDF]
Evolution, 1958 This paper is concerned with the biological factor in cultural evolution, with possible ways in which inherent physical, physiological and psychological characteristics shared by all human beings have conditioned culture and channeled the direction of its development.
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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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Kamikazes and cultural evolution
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2017 Is cultural evolution needed to explain altruistic selfsacrifice? Some contend that cultural traits (e.g. beliefs, behaviors, and for some "memes") replicate according to selection processes that have "floated free" from biology. One test case is the example of suicide kamikaze attacks in wartime Japan. Standard biological mechanisms-such as reciprocal
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