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The cultural evolution and ecology of institutions
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2021 Human societies are structured by what we refer to as ‘institutions’, which are socially created and culturally inherited proscriptions on behaviour that define roles and set expectations about social interactions.
Thomas E. Currie +6 more
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Dogs display owner-specific expectations based on olfaction
Scientific Reports, 2021 Most current knowledge about dogs’ understanding of, and reacting to, their environment is limited to the visual or auditory modality, but it remains unclear how olfaction and cognition are linked together.
Juliane Bräuer, Damian Blasi
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Hunter-gatherer multilevel sociality accelerates cumulative cultural evolution
Science Advances, 2020 Hunter-gatherers from different bands form fluid social networks that facilitate cultural innovation through recombination of cultural traditions. Although multilevel sociality is a universal feature of human social organization, its functional relevance
A. Migliano +11 more
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Software cultures and evolution [PDF]
Computer, 2001 To work effectively with legacy code, software engineers need to understand a legacy computer program's culture - the combination of the programmer's background, the hardware environment and the programming techniques that guided its creation. Software systems typically pass through a series of stages.
Václav Rajlich +3 more
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Pursuing Darwin’s curious parallel: Prospects for a science of cultural evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017 Alex Mesoudi, Mesoudi Alex
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Cumulative Cultural Evolution within Evolving Population Structures.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020 Our species has the peculiar ability to accumulate cultural innovations over multiple generations, a phenomenon termed 'cumulative cultural evolution' (CCE). Recent years have seen a proliferation of empirical and theoretical work exploring the interplay
Maxime Derex, A. Mesoudi
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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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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: People’s Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World
Social Forces, 2018 Cultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for most of history, which encouraged heavy emphasis on group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and obedience to strong ...
R. Inglehart
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