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Canoes and cultural evolution [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008 Over the last 30 years, the idea that the processes producing cultural stability and change are analogous in important respects to those of biological evolution has become increasingly popular. Biological evolution is characterized by changing frequencies of genes in populations through time as a result of such processes as natural selection; likewise,
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Darwinism and the Cultural Evolution of Sports [PDF]
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2009 This article outlines a Darwinian approach to sports that takes into account its profoundly cultural character and thereby overcomes the traditional nature-culture dichotomies in the sociology of sport. We argue that there are good reasons to view sports as culturally evolved signaling systems that serve a function similar to (biological) courtship
De Block, Andreas, Dewitte, Siegfried
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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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Grouping sounds into evolving units for the purpose of historical language comparison
Open Research EuropeComputer-assisted approaches to historical language comparison have made great progress during the past two decades. Scholars can now routinely use computational tools to annotate cognate sets, align words, and search for regularly ...
Johann-Mattis List +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 We aimed to examine the link between two types of joint action (synchrony and asynchrony) and creativity (both divergent thinking and convergent thinking) using an established experimental paradigm.
Reneeta Mogan +2 more
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Old and New Approaches to Animal Cognition: There Is Not “One Cognition”
Journal of Intelligence, 2020 Using the comparative approach, researchers draw inferences about the evolution of cognition. Psychologists have postulated several hypotheses to explain why certain species are cognitively more flexible than others, and these hypotheses assume that ...
Juliane Bräuer +4 more
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Cognitive gadgets from The cultural evolution of cultural evolution
, 2021 What makes fast, cumulative cultural evolution work? Where did it come from? Why is it the sole preserve of humans? We set out a self-assembly hypothesis: cultural evolution evolved culturally. We present an evolutionary account that shows this hypothesis to be coherent, plausible, and worthy of further investigation. It has the following steps: (0) in
Birch, Jonathan, Heyes, Cecilia
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Scientific ReportsThe Philippines are central to understanding the expansion of the Austronesian language family from its homeland in Taiwan. It remains unknown to what extent the distribution of Malayo-Polynesian languages has been shaped by back migrations and language ...
Benedict King +5 more
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The cultural evolution of shamanism
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017 AbstractShamans, including medicine men, mediums, and the prophets of religious movements, recur across human societies. Shamanism also existed among nearly all documented hunter-gatherers, likely characterized the religious lives of many ancestral humans, and is often proposed by anthropologists to be the “first profession,” representing the first ...
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Extending CLDF — Towards a Type System for Cross-Linguistic Data
Journal of Open Humanities DataWe argue that, in order to maximize reusability of cross-linguistic data, it is useful to think about it in terms of a type system. Type systems are enforceable rules guiding the interpretation of data in computer programs. Thus, they link data values to
Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List
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