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The reach of gene-culture coevolution in animals.
Review in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.
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- Human culture is uniquely open-ended rather than uniquely cumulative.Nature human behaviour · 2025Review
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- The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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- The price of being late: short- and long-term consequences of a delayed migration timing.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Steps to individuality in biology and culture.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- What made us "hunter-gatherers of words".Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Culture (behaviour based on socially transmitted information) is present in diverse animal species, yet how it interacts with genetic evolution remains largely unexplored. Here, we review the evidence for gene-culture coevolution in animals, especially birds, cetaceans and primates. We describe how culture can relax or intensify selection under different circumstances, create new selection pressures by changing ecology or behaviour, and favour adaptations, including in other species. Finally, we illustrate how, through culturally mediated migration and assortative mating, culture can shape population genetic structure and diversity. This evidence suggests strongly that animal culture plays an important evolutionary role, and we encourage explicit analyses of gene-culture coevolution in nature.
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