A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species' progress, from one of the world's
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We argue that individualism promotes gender equality. Individualist values of autonomy and
self-determination transcend gender identities and serve to legitimize women's goals and …

This paper brings together methodological, theoretical, and empirical analysis into the
framework of linguistic diversity. It reflects both historical and contemporary research by …

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Imago Mundi Volumen 331 El big bang de las civilizaciones: el misterio del crecimiento y la …

After introducing the new field of cultural evolution, we review a growing body of empirical
evidence suggesting that culture shapes what people attend to, perceive and remember as …

This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting
variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries …

We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a
newly constructed data set of linguistic distances between European regions. The decline …

Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign nouns to
distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. We construct a new data set …

This paper examines the joint evolution of emigration and individualism in Scandinavia
during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1920). A long-standing hypothesis holds that …

Some languages encode future timing more ambiguously than others. We identify two
economic channels through which more ambiguous reference to future timing leads to …