In the last decade, cultural transmission experiments (transmission chains, replacement,
closed groups and seeded groups) have become important experimental tools in …

The zone of latent solutions (ZLS) hypothesis provides an alternative approach to explaining
cultural patterns in primates and many other animals. According to the ZLS hypothesis, non …

The cultural reproduction of lithic technology, long an implicit assumption of archaeological
theories, has garnered increasing attention over the past decades. Major debates ranging …

High-fidelity cultural transmission, rather than brute intelligence, is the secret of our species'
success, or so many cultural evolutionists claim. It has been selected because it ensures the …

While widely acknowledged in the cultural evolution literature, ecological factors—aspects of
the physical environment that affect the way in which cultural productions evolve—have not …

Evolvability refers to the capacity, ability, or potential of an organism to generate heritable
variation. Under this view, much extragenetic inheritance is regarded not as noise, fine …

Linking the likelihood of convergent evolution to the technologies' complexity, this paper
identifies the scales of technological diffusion and convergence, ie, the evolving of structures …

The study of cultural evolution now includes multiple theoretical frameworks. Despite
common influence from Darwinian evolutionary theory, there is considerable diversity. Thus …

The themes explored in this book revolve around the related areas of convergent
(independent) evolution of particular forms of material culture, the notion and recognition of …

Based on flaked stone projectile point manufacture and proximity to stone outcrops,
archaeologists designated the Honey Run site (33-Co-3), Coshocton County, Ohio, to be a …