
Culture Evolves
by Whiten, Andrew; Hinde, Robert A.; Stringer, Christopher B.; Laland, Kevin N.-
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Table of Contents
Introduction, Andrew Whiten, Robert A. Hinde, Kevin N. Laland, and Christopher B. Stringer
Exploring the costs and benefits of social information use: an appraisal of current experimental evidence, Guillaume Rieucau and Luc-Alain Giraldeau
From fish to fashion: experimental and theoretical insights into the evolution of culture, K.N. Laland, N.Atton, and M.M. Webster
Social learning in birds and its role in shaping a foraging nice, Tore Slagsvold and Karen L. Wiebe
Social learning and the development of individual and group behaviour in mammal societies, Alex Thornton and Tim Clutton-Brock
Social traditions and social learning in capuchin monkeys (Cebus), Susan Perry
The scope of culture in chimpanzees, humans, and ancestral apes, Andrew Whiten
Social learning and evolution: the cultural intelligence hypothesis, Carel P. van Schaik and Judith M. Burkart
The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence, Simon M. Reader, Yfke Hager, and Kevin N. Laland
The origins of stone tool technology in Africa: a historical perspective, Ignacio de la Torre
Culture and cognition in the Acheulian industry: a case study from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Naama Goren-Inbar
Stone toolmaking and the evolution of human culture and cognition, Dietrich Stout
Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures, Francesco d'Errico and Chris B. Stringer
Descent with modification and the archaeological record, Stephen Shennan
The evolution of the diversity of cultures, R.A. Foley and M. Mirazon Lahr
Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes, Russell D. Gray, Quentin D. Atkinson, and Simon J. Greenhill
How do we use language? Shared patters in the frequency of word use across 17 world languages, Andreea S. Calude and Mark Pagel
Mode and tempo in the evolution of socio-political organization: reconciling 'Darwinian' and 'Spencerian' evolutionary approaches in anthropology, Thomas E. Currie and Ruth Mace
How copying affects the amount, evenness, and persistence of cultural knowledge: insights from the social learning strategies tournament, L. Rendell, R. Boyd, M. Enquist, M.W. Feldman, L. Fogarty, and K. N. Laland
What drives the evolution of hunter gatherer subsistence technology? A reanalysis of the risk hypothesis with data from the Pacific Northwest, Mark Collard, Briggs Buchanan, Jesse Morin, and Andre Costopoulos
On the nature of cultural transmission networks: evidence from Fijian villages for adaptive learning biases, Joseph Henrich and James Broesch
Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation, Gergely Csibra and Gyorgy Gergeley
The scope and limits of overimitation in the transmission of artefact culture, Derek E. Lyons, Diana H. Damrosch, Jennifer K. Lin, Deanna M. Macris, and Frank C. Keil
Social learning among Congo Basin hunter-gathers, Barry S. Hewlett, Hillary N. Fouts, Adam H. Boyette, and Bonnie L. Hewlett
Young children's selective trust in informants, Paul L. Harris and Kathleen H. Corriveau
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