A new issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences with the title ‘Culture evolves’, edited by Andrew Whiten, Robert A. Hinde, Christopher B. Stringer and Kevin N. Laland is available online. If you do not have free access, we encourage you to check the individual web pages of the author — whom we encourage to post all their papers, vive le open access! \u2013- and, if need be, to ask them for the Pdf. Here below is the table of contents.<\/p>\n
Preface
\nAndrew Whiten, Robert A. Hinde, Christopher B. Stringer, and Kevin N. Laland<\/p>\n
Introduction: Culture evolves
\nAndrew Whiten, Robert A. Hinde, Kevin N. Laland, and Christopher B. Stringer<\/p>\n
Exploring the costs and benefits of social information use: an appraisal of current experimental evidence
\nGuillaume Rieucau and Luc-Alain Giraldeau<\/p>\n
From fish to fashion: experimental and theoretical insights into the evolution of culture
\nK. N. Laland, N. Atton, and M. M. Webster<\/p>\n
Social learning in birds and its role in shaping a foraging niche
\nTore Slagsvold and Karen L. Wiebe<\/p>\n
Social learning and the development of individual and group behaviour in mammal societies
\nAlex Thornton and Tim Clutton-Brock<\/p>\n
Social traditions and social learning in capuchin monkeys (Cebus)
\nSusan Perry<\/p>\n
The scope of culture in chimpanzees, humans and ancestral apes
\nAndrew Whiten<\/p>\n
Social learning and evolution: the cultural intelligence hypothesis
\nCarel P. van Schaik and Judith M. Burkart<\/p>\n
The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence
\nSimon M. Reader, Yfke Hager, and Kevin N. Laland<\/p>\n
The origins of stone tool technology in Africa: a historical perspective
\nIgnacio de la Torre<\/p>\n
Culture and cognition in the Acheulian industry: a case study from Gesher Benot Ya aqov
\nNaama Goren-Inbar<\/p>\n
Stone toolmaking and the evolution of human culture and cognition
\nDietrich Stout<\/p>\n
Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures?
\nFrancesco d’Errico and Chris B. Stringer<\/p>\n
Descent with modification and the archaeological record
\nStephen Shennan<\/p>\n
The evolution of the diversity of cultures
\nR. A. Foley and M. Miraz\u00f3n Lahr<\/p>\n
Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes
\nRussell D. Gray, Quentin D. Atkinson, and Simon J. Greenhill<\/p>\n
How do we use language? Shared patterns in the frequency of word use across 17 world languages
\nAndreea S. Calude and Mark Pagel<\/p>\n
Mode and tempo in the evolution of socio-political organization: reconciling \u2018Darwinian\u2019 and \u2018Spencerian\u2019 evolutionary approaches in anthropology
\nThomas E. Currie and Ruth Mace<\/p>\n
How copying affects the amount, evenness and persistence of cultural knowledge: insights from the social learning strategies tournament
\nL. Rendell, R. Boyd, M. Enquist, M. W. Feldman, L. Fogarty, and K. N. Laland<\/p>\n
What drives the evolution of hunter\u2013gatherer subsistence technology? A reanalysis of the risk hypothesis with data from the Pacific Northwest
\nMark Collard, Briggs Buchanan, Jesse Morin, and Andre Costopoulos<\/p>\n
On the nature of cultural transmission networks: evidence from Fijian villages for adaptive learning biases
\nJoseph Henrich and James Broesch<\/p>\n
Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation
\nGergely Csibra and Gy\u00f6rgy Gergely<\/p>\n
The scope and limits of overimitation in the transmission of artefact culture
\nDerek E. Lyons, Diana H. Damrosch, Jennifer K. Lin, Deanna M. Macris, and Frank C. Keil<\/p>\n
Social learning among Congo Basin hunter\u2013gatherers
\nBarry S. Hewlett, Hillary N. Fouts, Adam H. Boyette, and Bonnie L. Hewlett<\/p>\n
Young children’s selective trust in informants
\nPaul L. Harris and Kathleen H. Corriveau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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