A growing number of authors have discussed the role of climate change in periods of
important biological and cultural transition along the hominin lineage. This paper …

The transition to specialization of knowledge within populations could have facilitated the
accumulation of cultural complexity in humans. Specialization allows populations to …

Culture and demography jointly facilitate flexible human adaptation, yet it still remains
unclear how social learning operates in populations with age structure. Here, we present a …

Diversity drives both biological and artificial evolution. A prevalent assumption in cultural
evolution is that the generation of novel features is an inherent property of a subset of the …

Contributing to the issue of complex relationship between social and cultural evolution, this
paper aims to analyze repetitive patterns, or cycles, in the development of material culture …

This article aims to reconstruct a possible interpretation of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit
of Capitalism through the concept of elective affinity, which, as I have read, records …

Linking the likelihood of convergent evolution to the technologies' complexity, this paper
identifies the scales of technological diffusion and convergence, ie, the evolving of structures …

Successful climate change adaptation depends on the spread and maintenance of adaptive
behaviours. Current theory suggests that the heterogeneity of metapopulation structure can …

Social learning is essential to survival. It is likely to evolve when it is more efficient than
asocial, trial-and-error learning. The consensus in cultural evolutionary theory holds that …

The human capacity for culture is a key determinant of our success as a species. While
much work has examined adults' abilities to create and transmit cultural knowledge …