The internet is rapidly changing what information is available as well as how we find it and
share it with others. Here we examine how this “digital expansion of the mind” changes …

The psychology of cultural dynamics is the psychological investigation of the formation,
maintenance, and transformation of culture over time. This article maps out the terrain …

Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it
develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective …

The method of serial reproduction has revealed that the social transmission of information is
characterized by the gradual transformation of the original message. This transformation …

In the last decade, cultural transmission experiments (transmission chains, replacement,
closed groups and seeded groups) have become important experimental tools in …

Human speech has combinatorial structure, but it is still unclear how this type of organization
emerged in the course of language evolution. There are two positions in the debate about …

It has been proposed that climate adaptation research can benefit from an evolutionary
approach. But related empirical research is lacking. We advance the evolutionary study of …

It has been proposed that languages evolve by adapting to the perceptual and cognitive
constraints of the human brain, develo**, in the course of cultural transmission, structural …

Sharing information and memories is a key feature of social interactions, making social
contexts important for develo** and transmitting accurate memories and also false …

This study examines the intergenerational transfer of human communication systems. It tests
if human communication systems evolve to be easy to learn or easy to use (or both), and …