Arsham Nejad Kourki
Arsham Nejad Kourki
Recent years have seen growing interest in applying the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality (ETI) framework to human sociocultural evolution. Proponents argue that human societies exhibit features - such as multilevel organization, co...
The cultural macroevolution of arcade video games: innovation, collaboration, and collapse [0.03%]
街机视频游戏的文化宏观演变：创新、合作与衰败
Sergi Valverde,Blai Vidiella,Andrej Spiridonov et al.
Sergi Valverde et al.
Arcade video games evolved in a constrained design space, following patterns of diversification, stabilisation, and collapse that mirror macroevolutionary processes. Despite their historical significance and detailed digital records, arcade...
George Brill,Mark Dyble
George Brill
Bipedalism is a distinguishing feature of our species and, as such, there has been much interest in the energetic costs and foraging returns of walking and running, especially among hunter-gatherer societies. However, humans routinely exhib...
A hundred and two just-so stories: exploring the lay evolutionary hypotheses of the manosphere [0.03%]
一百零二个完美解释的故事——来自男子圈的进化假设调查研究
Louis Bachaud,Macken Murphy,Sarah E Johns
Louis Bachaud
The manosphere is a collection of online antifeminist men's groups whose ideologies often invoke Darwinian principles and evolutionary psychological research. In the present study, we reveal that the manosphere generates its own untested an...
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies [0.03%]
文化演化迥异：壮侗语系和织锦技艺
Christopher D Buckley,Emma Kopp,Thomas Pellard et al.
Christopher D Buckley et al.
We investigate and compare the evolution of two aspects of culture, languages and weaving technologies, amongst the Kra-Dai (Tai-Kadai) peoples of southwest China and Southeast Asia, using Bayesian Markov-Chain Monte Carlo methods to uncove...
African harps as units of cultural evolution: a cladistic analysis on their morphology [0.03%]
非洲竖琴的文化演化单元分析：形态学的谱系分析
Salomé Strauch,Guillaume Lecointre,Pierre Darlu et al.
Salomé Strauch et al.
In Africa, harps exhibit significant morphological diversity, yet their historical trajectory remains largely underexplored. Phylogenetic reconstruction methods offer valuable tools for understanding this diversity and the relationships bet...
Natural selection on reproductive timing varies by education in twentieth-century Estonia [0.03%]
二十世纪爱沙尼亚受教育程度不同的人在生殖时间上的自然选择有所不同
Richard Meitern,Peeter Hõrak
Richard Meitern
This register-based study investigates how natural selection acts on educational attainment and reproductive timing among Estonians born between 1925 and 1977. Women with primary education consistently achieved the highest reproductive succ...
Object play in Tsimane children: implications for sex-specific division of labour [0.03%]
TSIMANE儿童玩偶游戏的性别差异及成人劳动分工的塑造作用
Ava Moser,Michael D Gurven,Hillard Kaplan et al.
Ava Moser et al.
Sex-specific division of labour and the associated use of different subsistence techniques by males (e.g. hunting) and females (e.g. gathering) has played an important role in shaping human societies. Skills needed in adulthood are practice...
Art beyond cognition: reframing Neanderthal art through social connectivity and cultural transmission [0.03%]
超认知的艺术：通过社会关联性和文化传播重构尼安德特人的艺术
Larissa Straffon,Claudio Tennie
Larissa Straffon
Despite growing consensus that cognitive differences between Neanderthals and modern humans were not as significant as once assumed, visual art remains disproportionately associated with Homo sapiens. This paper explores why that is. Rather...
Cultural evolution in the laboratory: evolution of cooperative altruistic punishing [0.03%]
实验中的文化演化：合作、利他和惩罚的进化
William M Baum,Peter J Richerson
William M Baum
Culture consists of practices - behaviour patterns - shared by members of a group. Some attempts to demonstrate evolution of cultural practices in the laboratory have shown evolution of material products, such as paper aeroplanes. Some atte...