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 …

How will superhuman artificial intelligence (AI) affect human decision-making? And what will
be the mechanisms behind this effect? We address these questions in a domain where AI …

Highlights•Humans have colonised and transformed every terrestrial environment on the
planet.•This ecological success can be attributed to our capacity for cultural evolution.•High …

In the past few decades, scholars from several disciplines have pursued the curious parallel
noted by Darwin between the genetic evolution of species and the cultural evolution of …

Cultural evolution studies are characterized by the notion that culture evolves accordingly to
broadly Darwinian principles. Yet how far the analogy between cultural and genetic …

Popular music offers a rich source of data that provides insights into long-term cultural
evolutionary dynamics. One major trend in popular music, as well as other cultural products …

Here, I discuss two broad versions of human cultural evolution which currently exist in the
literature and which emphasize different underlying dynamics. One, which originates in …

One of the major challenges in cultural evolution is to understand why and how various
forms of social learning are used in human populations, both now and in the past. To date …

Human technology is characterized by cumulative cultural knowledge gain, yet researchers
have limited knowledge of the mix of copying and innovation that maximizes progress. Here …

Network interpretation illuminates our understanding of the dynamic nature of cultural
evolution. Guided by cultural evolution theory, this article explores how people collectively …