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The cophylogeny of populations and cultures: reconstructing the evolution of Iranian tribal craft traditions using trees and jungles (2010)
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Tehrani, J., Collard, M., & Shennan, S. (2010). The cophylogeny of populations and cultures: reconstructing the evolution of Iranian tribal craft traditions using trees and jungles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365(1559), 3865-3874. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0020

Phylogenetic approaches to culture have shed new light on the role played by population dispersals in the spread and diversification of cultural traditions. However, the fact that cultural inheritance is based on separate mechanisms from genetic inhe... Read More about The cophylogeny of populations and cultures: reconstructing the evolution of Iranian tribal craft traditions using trees and jungles.

The Transmission and Evolution of Experimental Microcultures in Groups of Young Children (2010)
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Whiten, A., & Flynn, E. (2010). The Transmission and Evolution of Experimental Microcultures in Groups of Young Children. Developmental Psychology, 46(6), 1694-1709. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020786

A new experimental microculture approach was developed to investigate the creation and transmission of differing traditions in small communities of young children. Four playgroups, with a total of 88 children, participated. In each of 2 playgroups, a... Read More about The Transmission and Evolution of Experimental Microcultures in Groups of Young Children.

Field Compressing Magnetothermal Instability in Laser Plasmas (2010)
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Bissell, J., Ridgers, C., & Kingham, R. (2010). Field Compressing Magnetothermal Instability in Laser Plasmas. Physical Review Letters, 105(17), Article 175001. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.105.175001

The mechanism for a new instability in magnetized plasmas is presented and a dispersion relation derived. Unstable behavior is shown to result purely from transport processes—feedback between the Nernst effect and the Righi-Leduc heat-flow phenomena... Read More about Field Compressing Magnetothermal Instability in Laser Plasmas.

Learning by proportional observation in a species of fish. (2010)
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Pike, T., Kendal, J., Rendell, L., & Laland, K. (2010). Learning by proportional observation in a species of fish. Behavioral Ecology, 21, 570-575. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arq025

Theoretical analyses predict that animals should not copy other individuals indiscriminately but rather should do so selectively, according to evolved behavioral strategies that dictate the circumstances under which they copy. Here, we show experimen... Read More about Learning by proportional observation in a species of fish..

A comparison of bonobo and chimpanzee tool use: evidence for a female bias in the Pan lineage. (2010)
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Gruber, T., Clay, Z., & Zuberbühler, K. (2010). A comparison of bonobo and chimpanzee tool use: evidence for a female bias in the Pan lineage. Animal Behaviour, 80(6), 1023-1033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.09.005

Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, are the most sophisticated tool-users among all nonhuman primates. From an evolutionary perspective, it is therefore puzzling that the tool use behaviour of their closest living primate relative, the bonobo, Pan paniscus... Read More about A comparison of bonobo and chimpanzee tool use: evidence for a female bias in the Pan lineage..

Does wealth increase parental investment biases in child education ? evidence from two African populations on the cusp of the fertility transition (2010)
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Gibson, M., & Sear, R. (2010). Does wealth increase parental investment biases in child education ? evidence from two African populations on the cusp of the fertility transition. Current Anthropology, 51(5), 693-701. https://doi.org/10.1086/655954

Why fertility declines is still a matter of intense debate. One theory proposes that fertility decline may be partly driven by shifts in parental investment strategies: couples reduce family size as demographic and economic changes cause investment i... Read More about Does wealth increase parental investment biases in child education ? evidence from two African populations on the cusp of the fertility transition.

Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality (2010)
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Fox, M., Sear, R., Beise, J., Ragsdale, G., Voland, E., & Knapp, L. (2010). Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1681), 567-573. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.1660

Biologists use genetic relatedness between family members to explain the evolution of many behavioural and developmental traits in humans, including altruism, kin investment and longevity. Women's post-menopausal longevity in particular is linked to... Read More about Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality.

Independent cultural evolution of two song traditions in the chestnut-sided warbler (2010)
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Byers, B., Belinsky, K., & Bentley, R. (2010). Independent cultural evolution of two song traditions in the chestnut-sided warbler. The American Naturalist, 176(4), 476-489. https://doi.org/10.1086/656268

In oscine songbirds, song phenotypes arise via gene‐culture coevolution, in which genetically transmitted learning predispositions and culturally transmitted song forms influence one another's evolution. To assess the outcome of this process in a pop... Read More about Independent cultural evolution of two song traditions in the chestnut-sided warbler.

Genealogy, kinship and knowledge: A cautionary note about causation (2010)
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Lyon, S. (2010). Genealogy, kinship and knowledge: A cautionary note about causation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(5), 394-394. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x10002244

The choice of emphasis in kinship studies has often resulted in incompatible theoretical models of kinship that are mutually undermining and contradictory. Jones’ attempts to reconcile disparate approaches to kinship using OT is useful, however; seei... Read More about Genealogy, kinship and knowledge: A cautionary note about causation.

Motivation and Justification from Dreams: Muslim decision making strategies in Punjab, Pakistan (2010)
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Lyon, S. (2010). Motivation and Justification from Dreams: Muslim decision making strategies in Punjab, Pakistan. History and Anthropology, 21(3), 263-276. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2010.500813

Dreams may serve to justify or motivate decisions. This paper examines two dream incidents in Pakistan which have implications for the study of decision making processes. In the first incident, the centrality of the dream is questionable in the decis... Read More about Motivation and Justification from Dreams: Muslim decision making strategies in Punjab, Pakistan.

The effect of task structure on diffusion dynamics: Implications for diffusion curve and network-based analyses (2010)
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Hoppitt, W., Kandler, A., Kendal, J., & Laland, K. (2010). The effect of task structure on diffusion dynamics: Implications for diffusion curve and network-based analyses. Learning & Behavior, 38(3), 243-251. https://doi.org/10.3758/lb.38.3.243

Theoretical analyses within the broad field of social learning research give mixed conclusions on whether the shape of a diffusion curve can be used to infer that a learned trait increases through social or asocial learning. Here we explore how facto... Read More about The effect of task structure on diffusion dynamics: Implications for diffusion curve and network-based analyses.

A rapid method for assessing social versus independent interest in health issues: A case study of 'bird flu' And 'swine flu' (2010)
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Bentley, R., & Ormerod, P. (2010). A rapid method for assessing social versus independent interest in health issues: A case study of 'bird flu' And 'swine flu'. Social Science & Medicine, 71(3), 482-485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.03.042

Effective communication strategies regarding health issues are affected by the way in which the public obtain their knowledge, particularly whether people become interested independently, or through their social networks. This is often investigated t... Read More about A rapid method for assessing social versus independent interest in health issues: A case study of 'bird flu' And 'swine flu'.

Evidence for social learning in wild lemurs (Lemur catta) (2010)
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Kendal, R., Custance, D., Kendal, J., Vale, G., Stoinski, T., Rakotomalala, N., & Rasaminanana, H. (2010). Evidence for social learning in wild lemurs (Lemur catta). Learning & Behavior, 38(3), 220-234. https://doi.org/10.3758/lb.38.3.220

Interest in social learning has been fuelled by claims of ‘culture’ in wild animals. These remain controversial because alternative explanations to social learning, such as asocial learning or ecological differences, remain difficult to refute. Compa... Read More about Evidence for social learning in wild lemurs (Lemur catta).

Studying children’s social learning experimentally “in the wild” (2010)
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Flynn, E., & Whiten, A. (2010). Studying children’s social learning experimentally “in the wild”. Learning & Behavior, 38(3), 284-296. https://doi.org/10.3758/lb.38.3.284

Diffusion studies are taking us a step closer to understanding social learning and cultural transmission in young children. The first half of this article presents a review that focuses on four main cultural issues addressed by diffusion studies: (1)... Read More about Studying children’s social learning experimentally “in the wild”.

Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals (2010)
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Capellini, I., Venditti, C., & Barton, R. (2010). Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals. Ecology, 91(9), 2783-2793. https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0817

The scaling of metabolic rates to body size is widely considered to be of great biological and ecological importance, and much attention has been devoted to determining its theoretical and empirical value. Most debate centres on whether the underlyin... Read More about Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals.