The concept of cultural evolution was fundamental to the foundation of academic musicology
and the subfield of comparative musicology, but largely disappeared from discussion after …

BACKGROUND Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man, published on 24 February 1871, laid
the grounds for scientific studies into human origins and evolution. We look at the advances …

This book is a comprehensive introduction to quantitative approaches to complex adaptive
systems. Practically all areas of life on this planet are constantly confronted with complex …

While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the
diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here, we outline the …

Advances in computer-assisted linguistic research have been greatly influential in resha**
linguistic research. With the increasing availability of interconnected datasets created and …

Human genetic and phenotypic diversity declines with distance from Africa, as predicted by
a serial founder effect in which successive population bottlenecks during range expansion …

Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to
be human in the 21st century? This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides the first …

In creolist circles, there has been aa long-standing debate whether creoles differ structurally
from non-creole languages and thus would form a special class of languages with specific …

Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative evolutionary biologists has sought to
reinvent historical linguistics through the use of phylogenetic and phylogeographical …

We present the first proposal of detailed internal subgrou** and higher-order structure of
the Pama-Nyungan family of Australian languages. Previous work has identified more than …