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Dr Jeremy Kendal's Outputs (8)

Prestige-Biased Social Learning (2024)
Book Chapter
Offord, M., Brand, C., & Kendal, J. (2024). Prestige-Biased Social Learning. In J. J. Tehrani (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.16

This chapter explores the role of prestige-biased social learning within cultural evolution studies. The authors define and underscore the significance of prestige, tracing its historical development in the social sciences. Originating from early twe... Read More about Prestige-Biased Social Learning.

Foreword (2017)
Book Chapter
Kendal, J. (2017). Foreword. In C. Deane-Drummond, & A. Fuentes (Eds.), The evolution of human wisdom. Lexington Books

Gene-Culture Coevolution (2015)
Book Chapter
Kendal, J. (2015). Gene-Culture Coevolution. In J. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (813-818). (2nd ed.). Elsevier

Gene-culture coevolution theory explicitly accounts for the inheritance of genetic and cultural traits whose fitness and evolutionary trajectory are nonindependent. After describing how a gene-culture coevolutionary account is constructed, the framew... Read More about Gene-Culture Coevolution.

Interactions between cognition and culture (2011)
Book Chapter
Kendal, J. (2011). Interactions between cognition and culture. In V. Swami (Ed.), Evolutionary psychology : a critical introduction (311-342). Wiley

This chapter takes a broad and often comparative perspective to look at the interactions between cognition and culture. After a brief introduction of the methods used to study cultural evolution and gene-culture co-evolution (G-CC), there is a review... Read More about Interactions between cognition and culture.