How does stochasticity in learning impact the accumulation of knowledge and the evolution of learning? [0.03%]
学习中的随机性对知识积累和学习进化有何影响？
Ludovic Maisonneuve,Laurent Lehmann
Ludovic Maisonneuve
Learning is crucial for humans and other animals to acquire knowledge, enhancing survival and reproduction. In particular, individual and social learning allow populations to accumulate knowledge across generations. Here, we examine how sto...
Oleg Sobchuk,Mason Youngblood
Oleg Sobchuk
In this paper, we chart an emerging academic terrain: cultural evolution of the arts, which is a theory-driven exploration of artistic dynamics, often done with large datasets of music, literature, movies, paintings, or games. This field ha...
Testing evolutionary theories of human cooperation via meta-analysis of microfinance repayment [0.03%]
通过微贷款偿还的元分析检验人类合作的进化理论
Dugald Foster,Erik Postma,Shakti Lamba et al.
Dugald Foster et al.
Explaining how cooperation evolves is a major research programme in the biological and social sciences. In this study, we tested evolutionary theories of human cooperation in a real-world social dilemma: joint liability microfinance, in whi...
Target trial emulation shows that supported causal effects of religious attendance on well-being are selective [0.03%]
基于目标试验模拟的宗教活动对身心健康的因果效应分析
Joseph A Bulbulia,Don E Davis,Crystal Park et al.
Joseph A Bulbulia et al.
Religious service attendance is associated with better well-being, but observational associations do not establish causation. We analyse six annual waves of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study () to estimate causal effects of monthly...
Wakaba Tateishi,Hirotaka Imada
Wakaba Tateishi
Indirect reciprocity is a reputation-based mechanism proposed to explain the evolution of human cooperation. Theoretical models demonstrated that the use of both first-order information (i.e., whether an evaluation target cooperated) and se...
Primate dental function and evolution: longitudinal 3D tooth wear in wild baboons [0.03%]
灵长目动物的牙齿功能和演化：野外狒狒的三维牙齿磨损研究
Ian Towle,Luca Fiorenza,Kristin L Krueger et al.
Ian Towle et al.
Tooth wear constrains feeding efficiency, life history, and survival in mammals, yet its progression in wild populations remains poorly understood. We use high-resolution 3D analysis to quantify occlusal tissue loss over a 3-year period in ...
Eleni Seferidou,Gözde Atağ
Eleni Seferidou
Patterns of social organisation and gender differentiation in past societies are difficult to reconstruct from material culture data alone, are prone to modern interpretation biases, and often remain subjects of controversy. An important as...
Ammie K Kalan,Claudio Tennie
Ammie K Kalan
Mid-last century, controversy existed around the question whether non-human great apes have culture. To a large degree, this is no longer controversial - apes have their own cultures. However, there remains controversy around how to best st...
Self-reported social media use does not affect cross-cultural consensus in first impressions [0.03%]
自我报告的社交媒体使用不影响第一印象的跨文化共识
Vojtěch Fiala,Slawomir Wacewicz,Zuzana Štěrbová et al.
Vojtěch Fiala et al.
Research focusing on first impression formation based on facial stimuli lacks a conclusion on whether there is a cross-cultural agreement and how deeply it has proliferated across distant populations. Social media may play an important role...
Rony Karstadt,Chloe Shiff,Tomer Oron et al.
Rony Karstadt et al.
Human handedness results from the interplay of genetic and cultural influences. A gene-culture co-evolutionary model for handedness was introduced by Laland et al. (1995), and this study generalizes that model and the related analysis. We a...