Outputs (4)

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.