Cultural diversity is disappearing quickly. Whilst a phylogenetic approach makes explicit the
continuous extinction of cultures, and the generation of new ones, cultural evolutionary …

Summary Culture evolves, 1–5 but the existence of cross-culturally general regularities of
cultural evolution is debated. 6–8 As a diverse but universal cultural phenomenon, music …

Interdependence occurs when individuals have a stake in the success or failure of others,
such that the outcomes experienced by one individual also generate costs or benefits for …

For a single species, human kinship organization is both remarkably diverse and strikingly
organized. Kinship terminology is the structured vocabulary used to classify, refer to, and …

By displaying a certain fragment of reality in the linguistic consciousness of a person, socio-
cognitive categories convey important information about the social structure of society, the …

In this paper, past plant knowledge serves as a case study to highlight the promise and
challenges of interdisciplinary data collection and interpretation in cultural evolution. Plants …

Human culture changes over time and varies across space. Two main approaches to study
cultural evolution have developed in the last fifty years: human behavioural ecology and a …

Music and language are both forms of communication universally observed across human
societies, prompting researchers to investigate why and how they evolved. Such research …

We examine the conceptual development of kinship through the lens of program induction.
We present a computational model for the acquisition of kinship term concepts, resulting in …

Across the world people in different societies structure their family relationships in many
different ways. These relationships become encoded in their languages as kinship …