Scholarly debates about the nature of human emotion traditionally pit biological and cultural
influences against one another. Although many existing theories acknowledge the role of …

Highlights•Birds can show cultural behaviour across multiple behavioural
contexts.•Evolutionary theory is a useful tool to examine cultural change over time.•I review …

Drawing on the philosophy of psychological explanation, we suggest that psychological
science, by focusing on effects, may lose sight of its primary explananda: psychological …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

Despite theoretical justification for the evolution of animal culture, empirical evidence for it
beyond mammals and birds remains scant, and we still know little about the process of …

Shamans, including medicine men, mediums, and the prophets of religious movements,
recur across human societies. Shamanism also existed among nearly all documented …

Current knowledge of the genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic systems of
inheritance requires a revision and extension of the mid-twentieth-century, gene …

We develop a conceptual framework for studying collective adaptation in complex socio-
cognitive systems, driven by dynamic interactions of social integration strategies, social …

Various studies have investigated cognitive mechanisms underlying culture in humans and
other great apes. However, the adaptive reasons for the evolution of uniquely sophisticated …

In this chapter, I consider the benefits of viewing history through an evolutionary lens. In
recent decades, a field of research has emerged, which builds on foundations from …