Cultural Evolution

From information free-riding to information sharing: how have humans solved the cooperative dilemma at the heart of cumulative cultural evolution? [preprint]

May 1, 2024

Sentiment analysis of the Twitter response to Netflix's Our Planet documentary

Jan 1, 2023

Prestige does not affect the cultural transmission of novel controversial arguments in an online transmission chain experiment

Aug 1, 2020

Cumulative cultural evolution within evolving population structures

Aug 1, 2020

Cultural evolution of football tactics: strategic social learning in managers’ choice of formation

Jan 1, 2020

Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics

Jan 1, 2019

Migration, acculturation, and the maintenance of between-group cultural variation

Oct 1, 2018

Cultural Evolution

Jan 1, 2018

Pursuing Darwin’s curious parallel: Prospects for a science of cultural evolution

Jul 1, 2017

Copying error, evolution, and phylogenetic signal in artifactual traditions: An experimental approach using model artifacts

Jun 1, 2016

The evolution of individual and cultural variation in social learning

Mar 1, 2016

The impact of imitative versus emulative learning mechanisms on artifactual variation: implications for the evolution of material culture

Nov 1, 2015

Learning in the Acheulean: Experimental insights using handaxe form as a model organism

Jan 1, 2015

From cultural traditions to cumulative culture: Parameterizing the differences between human and nonhuman culture

Oct 1, 2014

Considering the role of time budgets on copy-error rates in material culture traditions: An experimental assessment

May 1, 2014

Experimental studies of modern human social and individual learning in an archaeological context: People behave adaptively, but within limits

Jan 1, 2014

An experimental test of the accumulated copying error model of cultural mutation for Acheulean handaxe size

Nov 1, 2012

An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused

Sep 1, 2011

Random copying, frequency-dependent copying and culture change

Jan 1, 2009

An experimental simulation of the 'copy-successful-individuals' cultural learning strategy: adaptive landscapes, producer–scrounger dynamics, and informational access costs

Sep 1, 2008