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Dr Jeremy Kendal's Outputs (3)

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.

Fire in the Plio-Pleistocene: The functions of hominin fire use, and the mechanistic, developmental and evolutionary consequences (2015)
Journal Article
Attwell, L., Kovarovic, K., & Kendal, J. (2015). Fire in the Plio-Pleistocene: The functions of hominin fire use, and the mechanistic, developmental and evolutionary consequences. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 93, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.4436/jass.93006

Fire is a powerful natural force that can change landscapes extremely quickly. Hominins have harnessed this resource for their own purposes, with mechanistic and developmental physiological consequences. In addition, the use of fire has niche constru... Read More about Fire in the Plio-Pleistocene: The functions of hominin fire use, and the mechanistic, developmental and evolutionary consequences.