The last two decades have seen an explosion in research analysing cultural change as a
Darwinian evolutionary process. Here I provide an overview of the theory of cultural …

We suggest that human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and argue
that the structure of a science of cultural evolution should share fundamental features with …

Our understanding of population history in deep time has been assisted by fitting admixture
graphs (AGs) to data: models that specify the ordering of population splits and mixtures …

NLP research is impeded by a lack of resources and awareness of the challenges presented
by underrepresented languages and dialects. Focusing on the languages spoken in …

Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than
theories that are more complex. It has a history dating back to Aristotle and it plays an …

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution
accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there …

Discussion of Indo-European origins and dispersal focuses on two hypotheses. Qualitative
evidence from reconstructed vocabulary and correlations with archaeological data suggest …

Organisms in fluctuating environments must constantly adapt their behavior to survive. In
clonal populations, this may be achieved through sensing followed by response or through …

This book updates the Dual Coding Theory of mind (DCT), a theory of modern human
cognition consisting of separate but interconnected nonverbal and verbal systems. Allan …

Languages, like genes, provide vital clues about human history,. The origin of the Indo-
European language family is “the most intensively studied, yet still most recalcitrant, problem …