Outputs (17)

Adult Learners in a Novel Environment Use Prestige-Biased Social Learning (2012)
Journal Article
Atkisson, C., Mesoudi, A., & O'Brien, M. (2012). Adult Learners in a Novel Environment Use Prestige-Biased Social Learning. Evolutionary Psychology, 10(3), 519-537

Social learning (learning from others) is evolutionarily adaptive under a wide range of conditions and is a long-standing area of interest across the social and biological sciences. One social-learning mechanism derived from cultural evolutionary the... Read More about Adult Learners in a Novel Environment Use Prestige-Biased Social Learning.

An Experimental Test of the Accumulated Copying Error Model of Cultural Mutation for Acheulean Handaxe Size (2012)
Journal Article
Kempe, M., Lycett, S., & Mesoudi, A. (2012). An Experimental Test of the Accumulated Copying Error Model of Cultural Mutation for Acheulean Handaxe Size. PLoS ONE, 7(11), Article e48333. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048333

Archaeologists interested in explaining changes in artifact morphology over long time periods have found it useful to create models in which the only source of change is random and unintentional copying error, or ‘cultural mutation’. These models can... Read More about An Experimental Test of the Accumulated Copying Error Model of Cultural Mutation for Acheulean Handaxe Size.

An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused. (2011)
Journal Article
Mesoudi, A. (2011). An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused. Evolution and Human Behavior, 32(5), 334-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.12.001

Cultural evolution: How Darwinian theory can explain human culture and synthesize the social sciences. (2011)
Book
Mesoudi, A. (2011). Cultural evolution: How Darwinian theory can explain human culture and synthesize the social sciences. The University of Chicago Press

Beyond DNA: integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution. (2011)
Journal Article
Danchin, E., Charmantier, A., Champagne, F., Mesoudi, A., Pujol, B., & Blanchet, S. (2011). Beyond DNA: integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution. Nature Reviews Genetics, 12(7), 475-486. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg3028

Variable cultural acquisition costs constrain cumulative cultural evolution (2011)
Journal Article
Mesoudi, A. (2011). Variable cultural acquisition costs constrain cumulative cultural evolution. PLoS ONE, 6(3), Article e18239. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018239

One of the hallmarks of the human species is our capacity for cumulative culture, in which beneficial knowledge and technology is accumulated over successive generations. Yet previous analyses of cumulative cultural change have failed to consider the... Read More about Variable cultural acquisition costs constrain cumulative cultural evolution.

The cultural dynamics of copycat suicide (2009)
Journal Article
Mesoudi, A. (2009). The cultural dynamics of copycat suicide. PLoS ONE, 4(9), Article e7252. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007252

The observation that suicides sometimes cluster in space and/or time has led to suggestions that these clusters are caused by the social learning of suicide-related behaviours, or “copycat suicides”. Point clusters are clusters of suicides localised... Read More about The cultural dynamics of copycat suicide.