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What is cumulative cultural evolution?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018
In recent years, the phenomenon of cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) has become the focus of major research interest in biology, psychology and anthropology.
A. Mesoudi, Alex Thornton
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Cultural evolution of conformity and anticonformity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Significance The evolutionary dynamics of cultural variants under conformist- and anticonformist-biased transmission have implications for humans and nonhuman animals.
Kaleda K. Denton, Yoav Ram, U. Liberman, M. Feldman   +3 more
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CPX‐351 in High‐Risk Relapsed Pediatric Acute Leukemia: Real‐World Phase 1 Data Establishing the FDA‐Approved Dose

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Outcomes for pediatric relapsed/refractory (R/R) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remain dismal. CPX‐351, a liposomal formulation of cytarabine and daunorubicin, may have less off‐target toxicities than traditional chemotherapies and has shown improved outcomes for adults with newly diagnosed therapy‐related AML.
Jonathan D. Bender, Lauren Pommert, Lori R. Backus, Andrea Bidwell, Courtney Blank, Erin H. Breese, Karen C. Burns, Adam Lane, Lynn H. Lee, Benjamin Mizukawa, Robin E. Norris, Maureen M. O'Brien, Daniel Peck, Christine Phillips, Thomas D. Ryan, Jennifer Young, Michael Absalon, John P. Perentesis   +17 more
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Universal and cultural factors shape body part vocabularies

Scientific Reports
Every human has a body. Yet, languages differ in how they divide the body into parts to name them. While universal naming strategies exist, there is also variation in the vocabularies of body parts across languages.
Annika Tjuka, Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List   +2 more
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Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data [version 1; peer review: 3 approved]

Open Research Europe
Large-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, Christoph Rzymski, Frederic Blum, Carlos Barrientos, Johann-Mattis List, Simon J. Greenhill, Johannes Englisch   +6 more
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Procedural priming of a numerical cognitive illusion

Judgment and Decision Making, 2016
A strategy activated in one task may be transferred to subsequent tasks and prevent activation of other strategies that would otherwise come to mind, a mechanism referred to as procedural priming. In a novel application of procedural priming we show that
Kimmo Eriksson, Fredrik Jansson
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Quantitative analysis of macroevolutionary patterning in technological evolution: Bicycle design from 1800 to 2000 [PDF]

, 2009
Book description: This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive ...
Lake, MW, Venti, J
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Cultural syndromes: Socially learned but real [PDF]

, 2016
While some of mental disorders due to emotional distress occur cross-culturally, others seem to be much more bound to particular cultures. In this paper, I propose that many of these “cultural syndromes” are culturally sanctioned responses to ...
Godman, Marion
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Pancreas, Muscle, and Subcutaneous Fat Atrophy in Patients Undergoing Radiation for Neuroblastoma

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Radiation therapy (RT) is part of standard‐of‐care therapy in high‐risk neuroblastoma (HR‐NBL) but can significantly affect nearby tissue. The objectives of this study were (1) to characterize changes in pancreas volume after RT and (2) to characterize changes in body composition, including body weight percentile ...
Pradipta Debnath, Marissa Ray, Luke Pater, Alexandra O. Glenn, Stephen Hartman, Elanchezhian Somasundaram, Todd Jenkins, Juan P. Gurria, Katherine Somers, Andrew T. Trout, Meera Kotagal   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linking pattern to process in cultural evolution: explaining material culture diversity among the Northern Khanty of Northwest Siberia [PDF]

, 2009
Book description: This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive ...
Jordan, P.
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