… This book is about the study of cultural diversity from an evolutionary perspective. Our
focus is specifically to explore the phylogenetic approach to cultural evolution. Phylogenies (or …

… Phylogenetic approaches to linguistic and cultural evolution promise to increase our …
studies applying phylogenetic methods to languages and other aspects of cultural variation, …

… And it is the evolution of cultural diversity that is the … cultural diversity from an evolutionary
perspective. Our focus is specifically to explore the phylogenetic approach to cultural evolution. …

… The Bayesian phylogenetic method I use in this study requires a model of cognate evolution,
which makes explicit how we assume our lexical data change. Here I am using a stochastic …

… phylogenetic and statistical approaches have explored this analogy further, focusing both
on applying novel phylogenetic … Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity for sponsoring …

… in the phylogenetic approach that are particularly relevant for the accuracy of crosscultural …
that underlie them, the phylogenetic approach provides a formal framework within which to …

… Despite the diversity of applications of phylogenetic methods in evolutionary anthropology …
of archaeologists and scholars inferring phylogenetic trees from material culture, such as tool …

… of phylogenetic methods on … phylogenetic techniques to reconstruct the history of the two
instruments, including cladistic and phenetic methods implemented in a standard phylogenetic …

… Taken as a whole, the chapters provide a solid demonstration of the potential of phylogenetic
methods for studying the evolutionary history of human populations using a variety of data …

… Insofar as cultural and genetic transmission are similar … use phylogenetic methods, a
powerful set of analytical techniques from evolutionary biology, to test hypotheses about cultural …