An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation (2014)
Journal Article
Kempe, M., & Mesoudi, A. (2014). An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(4), 285-290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.02.009

Cumulative culture is thought to have played a major role in hominin evolution, and so an understanding of the factors that affect cultural accumulation is important for understanding human evolution. Population size may be one such factor, with larg... Read More about An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation.

Considering the role of time budgets on copy-error rates in material culture traditions: An experimental assessment (2014)
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Schillinger, K., Mesoudi, A., & Lycett, S. (2014). Considering the role of time budgets on copy-error rates in material culture traditions: An experimental assessment. PLoS ONE, 9(5), Article e97157. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097157

Ethnographic research highlights that there are constraints placed on the time available to produce cultural artefacts in differing circumstances. Given that copying error, or cultural ‘mutation’, can have important implications for the evolutionary... Read More about Considering the role of time budgets on copy-error rates in material culture traditions: An experimental assessment.

Experimental and theoretical models of human cultural evolution (2014)
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Kempe, M., & Mesoudi, A. (2014). Experimental and theoretical models of human cultural evolution. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 5(3), 317-326. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1288

The modern field of cultural evolution is now over 30 years old, and an extensive body of theory and data has been amassed. This article reviews models of cultural evolution, both experimental and theoretical, and surveys what they can tell us about... Read More about Experimental and theoretical models of human cultural evolution.