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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Parents of children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often experience significant caregiver burden and disruption to their well‐being. While parent quality of life (QoL) during treatment is well characterized, little is known about outcomes during early survivorship.
Sara Dal Pra +3 more
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Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data [version 2; peer review: 3 approved]
Open Research EuropeLarge-scale lexical and grammatical datasets nowadays play an important role in comparative linguistics. However, the lack of standardization remains a challenge exacerbating extension and reuse of published data.
Robert Forkel +6 more
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Cultural evolution: integrating psychology, evolution and culture
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2016 Cultural evolution represents a body of theory and findings premised on the notions that, (i), human cultural change constitutes a Darwinian evolutionary process that shares key characteristics with (but is not identical in details to) genetic evolution; (ii), this second evolutionary process has been instrumental in our species’ dramatic ecological ...
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‘The uses of ethnography in the science of cultural evolution’. Commentary on Mesoudi, A., Whiten, A. and K. Laland ‘Toward a unified science of cultural evolution’ [PDF]
, 2006 There is considerable scope for developing a more explicit role for ethnography within the research program proposed in the article. Ethnographic studies of cultural micro-evolution would complement experimental approaches by providing insights into the “
Tehrani, J.
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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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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Cognitive and psychological difficulties could negatively interfere with treatment adherence and quality of life before and after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Methods to mitigate these changes may have positive effects on treatment success.
Kristen L. Votruba +11 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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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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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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Did social cognition evolve by cultural group selection? [PDF]
, 2019 Cognitive gadgets puts forward an ambitious claim: language, mindreading, and imitation evolved by cultural group selection. Defending this claim requires more than Heyes' spirited and effective critique of nativist claims.
Morin, O.
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