Conformity—defined here by the fact that an individual displays a particular behavior
because it is the most frequent the individual witnessed in others—has long been …

This review begins with a brief outline of the key concepts of Darwinian archaeology. Its
history is then summarized, beginning with its emergence as a significant theoretical focus …

From emails to social media, from instant messaging to political memes, the way we produce
and transmit culture is radically changing. Understanding the consequences of the massive …

Investigations of the evolutionary dynamics of cooperation and collective action provide
productive venues for theorizing social complexity, yet this multidisciplinary scholarship …

Archaeologists are adept at analyzing variation in artifacts. The discipline has well
established and tested methods to track change through time and to evaluate the function of …

Cultural transmission (CT) is implicit in many explanations of culture change. Formal CT
models were defined by anthropologists 30 years ago and have been a subject of active …

Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and
cumulative change in human technology—prominent research themes in both archaeology …

Human social life is uniquely complex and diverse. Much of that complexity and diversity
arises from culturally transmitted ideas, values and skills that underpin the operation of …

Focal topics for volumes in the series will include systematic paleontology of all vertebrates
(from agnathans to humans), phylogeny reconstruction, functional morphology, Paleolithic …

Change is inevitable, but some changes and transformations are more dramatic and fraught
with suffering than others. Resilience theory suggests the concept of a “rigidity trap” as an …