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Reasons to be fussy about cultural evolution.
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- The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems.Nature communications · 2025Review
- Mechanisms of cultural diversity in urban populations.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Cultural evolution: Where we have been and where we are going (maybe).Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect.Computational brain & behavior · 2024Article
- A preference to learn from successful rather than common behaviours in human social dilemmas.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Underappreciated features of cultural evolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Human biases limit cumulative innovation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- From Beethoven to Beyoncé: Do Changing Aesthetic Cultures Amount to "Cumulative Cultural Evolution?"Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Evaluating the relative contributions of copying and reconstruction processes in cultural transmission episodes.PloS one · 2021Article
- Ethnoscientific expertise and knowledge specialisation in 55 traditional cultures.Evolutionary human sciences · 2021Article
- Acculturation and market integration are associated with greater trust among Tanzanian Maasai pastoralists.Evolutionary human sciences · 2021Article
- Selection, adaptation, inheritance and design in human culture: the view from the Price equation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures.Biology & philosophy · 2020Article
- Ultimate and proximate explanations of strong reciprocity.History and philosophy of the life sciences · 2017Article
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