We survey recent computer modelling research of language evolution, focusing on a rule-
based model simulating the lexicon–syntax coevolution and an equation-based model …

Many of the most important properties of human groups–including properties that may give
one group an evolutionary advantage over another–are properly defined only at the level of …

The well-established framework of evolutionary dynamics can be applied to the fascinating
open problems how human brains are able to acquire and adapt language and how …

Language is the primary repository and mediator of human collective knowledge. A central
question for evolutionary linguistics is the origin of the combinatorial structure of language …

This paper provides a philosophical analysis of the Price equation and its role in
evolutionary theory. Traditional models in population genetics postulate simplifying …

It is generally difficult to define reasonable parameters and interpret their values in
mathematical models of social phenomena. Rather than directly fitting abstract parameters …

Innovation is the driving force of human progress. Recent urn models reproduce well the
dynamics through which the discovery of a novelty may trigger further ones, in an expanding …

In the absence of direct evidence of the emergence of language, the explicitness of formal
models which allow the exploration of interactions between multiple complex adaptive …

The distribution of cultural variants in a population is shaped by both neutral evolutionary
dynamics and by selection pressures. The temporal dynamics of social network connectivity …

Most commentators supported the thesis of the target article, though there were also those
who were less fully persuaded. I will begin with a response to the most critical …