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Compound and Incorporation Constructionsas Combinations of Unexpandable Roots

Zeitschrift für Wortbildung
This paper offers definitions of the terms compound construction, compoundand incorporation constructionthat can be applied to all languages in the same way.
Martin Haspelmath
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The Price Equation Since Price: An Accessible Account and a Generalization to Categorical Variables

Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology
The Price equation is usually treated as a description of how the population average value of a trait changes due to selection and other factors. Despite the fact that its generality is often emphasised, the Price equation is typically only applied to ...
Stephen Francis Mann
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East Asian Gene flow bridged by northern coastal populations over past 6000 years

Nature Communications
Coastal areas of northern East Asia in the ShanDong region, which show complex cultural transitions in the last 10,000 years, have helped to facilitate population interactions between more inland regions of mainland East Asia and islands such as those in
Juncen Liu, Yichen Liu, Yongsheng Zhao, Chao Zhu, Tianyi Wang, Wen Zeng, Bo Sun, Fen Wang, Hui Han, Zhenguang Li, Xiaotian Feng, Peng Cao, Fengshi Luan, Feng Liu, Qingyan Dai, Junfeng Guo, Zimeng Wang, Chengmin Wei, Qiaowei Wei, Ruowei Yang, Weihong Hou, Wanjing Ping, Fan Bai, Bo Miao, Wenjun Wang, Melinda A. Yang, Qiaomei Fu   +26 more
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Cumulative Cultural Evolution and Demography

PLoS ONE, 2012
The idea that demographic change may spur or slow down technological change has become widely accepted among evolutionary archaeologists and anthropologists. Two models have been particularly influential in promoting this idea: a mathematical model by Joseph Henrich, developed to explain the Tasmanian loss of culture during the Holocene; and an agent ...
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The evolution of religion and the evolution of culture

, 2014
The emerging science of religious evolution (the evolution of traits that distinguish religious individuals from non-religious ones) and the emerging science of cultural evolution have recently entered into a reciprocal relationship, each having something to offer the other.
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The emergence of polarised groups through source filtering

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Polarisation is a widespread societal issue, dividing populations into opposing groups whose beliefs may span multiple, seemingly unrelated, topics. This phenomenon creates distinct cultural groups with internally consistent yet mutually opposing beliefs,
Fredrik Jansson, Anandi Hattiangadi
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Cultural evolution from the producers' standpoint. [PDF]

Evol Hum Sci, 2023
André JB, Baumard N, Boyer P.
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Results from Reindl et al. (2025) support rather than challenge the sequence hypothesis

Royal Society Open Science
Johan Lind, Andreas Wartel, Anna Jon-And, Axel Ekström, Vera Vinken, Magnus Enquist   +5 more
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EVOLUTION, SOCIAL OR CULTURAL? [PDF]

American Anthropologist, 1947
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Cultural evolution of beauty standards. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Boucherie L, Kumar S, Ledebur K, Lohse A, Śliwa K.   +4 more
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