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Alex Mesoudi
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Towards a unified science of cultural evolution
2006 · 866 citations
Cultural Evolution
2011 · 711 citations
The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution
2008 · 394 citations
What is cumulative cultural evolution?
2018 · 365 citations
A bias for social information in human cultural transmission
2006 · 349 citations
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Trade-offs, control conditions, and alternative designs in the experimental study of cultural evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Decoding the Dynamics of Cultural Change: A Cultural Evolution Approach to the Psychology of Acculturation
Personality and Social Psychology Review
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Experimental Studies of Cultural Evolution
Oxford University Press eBooks
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2023
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Individual-Based Models of Cultural Evolution
Routledge eBooks
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2022
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Trusting the experts: The domain-specificity of prestige-biased social learning
PLoS ONE
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2021
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3 authors
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45
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Cultural selection and biased transformation: two dynamics of cultural evolution
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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2021
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Analogy as a Catalyst for Cumulative Cultural Evolution
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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2021
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BLIND AND INCREMENTAL OR DIRECTED AND DISRUPTIVE? ON THE NATURE OF NOVEL VARIATION IN HUMAN CULTURAL EVOLUTION
American Philosophical Quarterly
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2021
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1 author
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Individual-based models of cultural evolution. A step-by-step guide using R.
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2020
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The Cultural Transmission of Prestige and Dominance Social Rank Cues: an Experimental Simulation
Evolutionary Psychological Science
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2020
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Prestige Does Not Affect the Cultural Transmission of Novel Controversial Arguments in an Online Transmission Chain Experiment
Journal of Cognition and Culture
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2020
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The emergence and adaptive use of prestige in an online social learning task
Scientific Reports
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2020
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Cumulative Cultural Evolution within Evolving Population Structures
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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Cultural evolution of football tactics: strategic social learning in managers’ choice of formation
Evolutionary Human Sciences
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2020
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Understanding Agriculture within the Frameworks of Cumulative Cultural Evolution, Gene-Culture Co-Evolution, and Cultural Niche Construction
Human Ecology
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Prestige and dominance-based hierarchies exist in naturally occurring human groups, but are unrelated to task-specific knowledge
Royal Society Open Science
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2019
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Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology
Nature Human Behaviour
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2019
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154
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Prestige-biased social learning: current evidence and outstanding questions
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
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2019
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204
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Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics
Evolutionary Human Sciences
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2019
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Migration, acculturation, and the maintenance of between-group cultural variation
PLoS ONE
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2018
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Cultural evolution and cultural psychology
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What is cumulative cultural evolution?
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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Pursuing Darwin’s curious parallel: Prospects for a science of cultural evolution
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Understanding cumulative cultural evolution
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Social learning solves the problem of narrow-peaked search landscapes: experimental evidence in humans
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2016
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Evolving the human niche
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2016
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Copying error, evolution, and phylogenetic signal in artifactual traditions: An experimental approach using “model artifacts”
Journal of Archaeological Science
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2016
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Differences in Manufacturing Traditions and Assemblage-Level Patterns: the Origins of Cultural Differences in Archaeological Data
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
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2016
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The Evolution of Individual and Cultural Variation in Social Learning
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
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2016
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Appendix to Understanding Cumulative Cultural Evolution: A Reply to Vaesen, Collard, Et Al.
SSRN Electronic Journal
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2016
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Cultural diffusion in humans and other animals
Current Opinion in Psychology
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2015
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Factors affecting Acheulean handaxe variation: Experimental insights, microevolutionary processes, and macroevolutionary outcomes
Quaternary International
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Cultural evolution: integrating psychology, evolution and culture
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If we are all cultural Darwinians what’s the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in the field of cultural evolution
Biology & Philosophy
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The impact of imitative versus emulative learning mechanisms on artifactual variation: implications for the evolution of material culture
Evolution and Human Behavior
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Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies
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Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic
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Learning in the Acheulean: Experimental Insights Using Handaxe Form as a ‘Model Organism’
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Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution
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From cultural traditions to cumulative culture: parameterizing the differences between human and nonhuman culture
Journal of Theoretical Biology
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Considering the Role of Time Budgets on Copy-Error Rates in Material Culture Traditions: An Experimental Assessment
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2014
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Experimental and theoretical models of human cultural evolution
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science
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2014
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An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation
Evolution and Human Behavior
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2014
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Copying Error and the Cultural Evolution of “Additive” vs. “Reductive” Material Traditions: An Experimental Assessment
American Antiquity
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Experimental Studies of Modern Human Social and Individual Learning in an Archaeological Context: People Behave Adaptively, But Within Limits
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The Cultural Evolution of Technology and Science
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The Cultural Evolution of Technology and Science
The MIT Press eBooks
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Is Non-genetic Inheritance Just a Proximate Mechanism? A Corroboration of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
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An Experimental Test of the Accumulated Copying Error Model of Cultural Mutation for Acheulean Handaxe Size
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Culture and the Evolution of Human Sociality
Oxford University Press eBooks
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2012
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Adult Learners in a Novel Environment Use Prestige-Biased Social Learning
Evolutionary Psychology
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Introduction: Integrating Genetic and Cultural Evolutionary Approaches to Language
Human Biology
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Variable Cultural Acquisition Costs Constrain Cumulative Cultural Evolution
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2011
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An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused
Evolution and Human Behavior
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2011
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165
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Culture and the Darwinian Renaissance in the social sciences and humanities
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology
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Cultural Evolution
University of Chicago Press eBooks
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Cultural traits as units of analysis
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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2010
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Evolutionary Synthesis in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Cultural Science Journal
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2010
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1 author
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The Experimental Study of Cultural Innovation
The MIT Press eBooks
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2009
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1 author
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The Cultural Dynamics of Copycat Suicide
PLoS ONE
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2009
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1 author
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146
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