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Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2019 Popular music offers a rich source of data that provides insights into long-term cultural evolutionary dynamics. One major trend in popular music, as well as other cultural products such as literary fiction, is an increase over time in negatively ...
Charlotte O. Brand +2 more
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Judgment and Decision Making, 2017 Experiments on economic games typically fail to find positive reputational effects of using peer punishment of selfish behavior in social dilemmas. Theorists had expected positive reputational effects because of the potentially beneficial consequences ...
Kimmo Eriksson +2 more
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Posterior simulation-based calibration tests of phylogenetic dating methods [PDF]
PeerJSimulation-based calibration (SBC) checking is a method to ensure that the inference machinery for a Bayesian statistical analysis is functioning in a correct and unbiased manner. Typically, SBC begins with sampling parameter values from the model priors
Benedict King
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Scientific ReportsWe present a novel approach for testing genealogical relations between language families. Our method, which has previously only been applied to closely related languages, makes predictions for cognate reflexes based on the regularity of proposed sound ...
Frederic Blum +3 more
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Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionThe capacity for cumulative culture depends on the interplay between social learning and innovation, yet the social-ecological factors that shape individual variation in these processes remain poorly understood.
Bruce Rawlings +4 more
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The Pace of Cultural Evolution
PLoS ONE, 2012 Today, humans inhabit most of the world's terrestrial habitats. This observation has been explained by the fact that we possess a secondary inheritance mechanism, culture, in addition to a genetic system. Because it is assumed that cultural evolution occurs faster than biological evolution, humans can adapt to new ecosystems more rapidly than other ...
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Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago
Scientific ReportsThe site of Lehringen (Germany) has played a pivotal role in the study of the hunting behavior of Neanderthals. The finding of a 2.38 m long wooden thrusting spear was at the time of discovery in 1948 the only complete Palaeolithic hunting tool, dating ...
Ivo Verheijen +3 more
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, 2013 This chapter captures extensive discussions between people with different forms of expertise and viewpoints. It explores the relationships between language and music in evolutionary and cultural context. Rather than trying to essentialize either, they are characterized pragmatically in terms of features that appear to distinguish them (such as language’
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FROM CULTURAL REVOLUTION TO CULTURAL EVOLUTION
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 2018 En este artículo consideramos el concepto de la Revolución Cultural desde una perspectiva no convencional y enfatizamos que, en lo que respecta al concepto básico, la Revolución Cultural tiene especial relevancia para la sociedad moderna y puede concebirse como un esfuerzo colectivo para asegurar la elevación de la mente humana y las modalidades ...
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