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作者：Lala, Kevin N.; Feldman, Marcus W.
作者单位：University of St Andrews; Stanford University
摘要：Quantitative studies of cultural evolution and gene- culture coevolution (henceforth CE and GCC) emerged in the 1970s, in the aftermath of the race and intelligence quotient (IQ) and human sociobiology debates, as a counter to extreme hereditarian positions. These studies incorporated cultural transmission and its interaction with genetics in contributing to patterns of human variation. Neither CE nor GCC results were consistent with racist claims of ubiquitous genetic differences between soci...
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作者：Carrignon, Simon; Crema, Enrico R.; Kandler, Anne; Shennan, Stephen
作者单位：University of Cambridge; University of Cambridge; Max Planck Society; University of London; University College London
摘要：Cultural evolutionary processes can often lead to a statistical association between neutral and adaptive traits during episodes of population dispersal and the introduction of a beneficial technology in a geographic region. Here, we examine such cultural hitchhiking processes using an individual-based model that portrays the cultural interaction between a migrant and an incumbent population. Our model is loosely based on the interaction between farming and foraging populations during the initi...
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作者：Mehmood, Sultan; Naseer, Shaheen; Chen, Daniel L.
作者单位：New Economic School; University of Oxford; Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics
摘要：We provide experimental evidence that role models can galvanize prosocial actions amid global crises, exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a randomized control trial comparing role models, cash incentives, and celebrity endorsements, only role models successfully mitigated vaccine reluctance and ameliorated pandemic- induced educational setbacks. Monthly tracking of vaccination status was achieved via QR- code- verified certificates. Theory- of- mind behavioral data on the mentalizing of o...
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作者：Pichkar, Yakov; Surowiec, Alexandra; Creanza, Nicole
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; Vanderbilt University; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：The history of people's movements and interactions shapes both genetic and linguistic variation. Genes and languages are transmitted separately and their distributions reflect different aspects of human history, but some demographic processes can cause them to be similarly distributed. In particular, forms of societal organization, including movements in and out of a community, may have shaped the transmission of both genes and languages. If children were more likely to learn their mother's la...
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作者：Taniguchi, James; Tritsch, Nicolas X.
作者单位：McGill University; McGill University
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作者：Fogarty, Laurel; Kandler, Anne; Creanza, Nicole; Feldman, Marcus W.
作者单位：Max Planck Society; Vanderbilt University; Stanford University
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作者：Hubrich, Florian; Bosch, Nina M.; Chepkirui, Clara; Morinaka, Brandon I.; Rust, Michael; Gugger, Muriel; Robinson, Serina L.; Vagstad, Anna L.; Piel, Jorn
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作者：Pedroncini, Olivia; Federman, Noel; Marin-Burgin, Antonia
作者单位：Max Planck Society; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET); Francis Crick Institute
摘要：Odors are key signals for guiding spatial behaviors such as foraging and navigation in rodents. Recent findings reveal that odor representations in the piriform cortex (PCx) also encode spatial context information. However, the brain origins of this information and its integration into PCx microcircuitry remain unclear. This study investigates the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) as a potential source of spatial contextual information affecting the PCx microcircuit and its olfactory responses. ...
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作者：Deffner, Dominik; Fedorova, Natalia; Andrews, Jeffrey; Mcelreath, Richard
作者单位：Max Planck Society; Technical University of Berlin; Max Planck Society
摘要：Cultural evolution applies evolutionary concepts and tools to explain the change of culture over time. Despite advances in both theoretical and empirical methods, the connections between cultural evolutionary theory and evidence are often vague, limiting progress. Theoretical models influence empirical research but rarely guide data collection and analysis in logical and transparent ways. Theoretical models themselves are often too abstract to apply to specific empirical contexts and guide sta...
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作者：Hewlett, Barry S.; Boyette, Adam H.; Lew-Levy, Sheina; Gallois, Sandrine; Dira, Samuel Jilo
作者单位：Washington State University; Max Planck Society; Durham University; Autonomous University of Barcelona; Hawassa University
摘要：We examine from whom children learn in mobile hunter- gatherers, a way of life that characterized much of human history. Recent studies on the modes of transmission in hunter- gatherers are reviewed before presenting an analysis of five modes of but not previously evaluated in hunter- gatherer research. We also present two modes of group transmission, conformist transmission, and concerted transmission, seldom mentioned in hunter- gatherer social learning research, and propose a unique mode of...
