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 …

Pride is a self-conscious emotion, comprised of two distinct facets known as authentic and
hubristic pride, and associated with a cross-culturally recognized nonverbal expression …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

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 …

Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers
a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this …

Africa is particularly affected by climate change due to its exposure to climate hazards, high
vulnerability, and low adaptive capacity. Yet, Africa is also a continent rich in Indigenous and …

Ethnopharmacological relevance What are the minimum methodological and conceptual
requirements for an ethnopharmacological field study? How can the results of …

Demography is increasingly being invoked to account for features of the archaeological
record, such as the technological conservatism of the Lower and Middle Pleistocene, the …

AIM OF THE STUDY: Apart from empirically learned medicinal and pharmacological
properties, the selection of medicinal plants is dependent on cognitive features, ecological …

As biological and linguistic diversity, the world's cultural diversity is on decline. However, to
date there are no estimates of the rate at which the specific cultural traits of a group …