In recent years, the phenomenon of cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) has become the
focus of major research interest in biology, psychology and anthropology. Some researchers …

Our species has the peculiar ability to accumulate cultural innovations over multiple
generations, a phenomenon termed 'cumulative cultural evolution'(CCE). Recent years have …

Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional
environmental context of hominin evolution and dispersal is not well established due to the …

Bows and arrows, houses and kayaks are just a few examples of the highly optimized tools
that humans have produced and used to colonize new environments,. Because there is …

Although multilevel sociality is a universal feature of human social organization, its
functional relevance remains unclear. Here, we investigated the effect of multilevel sociality …

Can diversity make for better science? Although diversity has ethical and political value,
arguments for its epistemic value require a bridge between normative and mechanistic …

Various studies have investigated cognitive mechanisms underlying culture in humans and
other great apes. However, the adaptive reasons for the evolution of uniquely sophisticated …

Humans regularly solve complex problems in cooperative teams. A wide range of
mechanisms have been identified that improve the quality of solutions achieved by those …

Why is culture the way it is? Here I argue that a major force shaping culture is subjective
(cultural) selection, or the selective retention of cultural variants that people subjectively …

Abstract Notarchirico (Southern Italy) has yielded the earliest evidence of Acheulean
settlement in Italy and four older occupation levels have recently been unearthed, including …