Human societies are structured by what we refer to as 'institutions', which are socially
created and culturally inherited proscriptions on behaviour that define roles and set …

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought science into the public eye and to the attention of
governments more than ever before. Much of this attention is on work in epidemiology …

North American archaeologists must reconsider their implicit adherence to the culture history
paradigm. The long-standing role of this approach to situate archaeological remains in …

Cultural diversity is disappearing quickly. Whilst a phylogenetic approach makes explicit the
continuous extinction of cultures, and the generation of new ones, cultural evolutionary …

Over the last half century, anthropologists have vigorously debated the adaptive motivations
underlying food acquisition choices and food-sharing among hunter-gatherer groups …

Evolutionary scientists studying social and cultural evolution have proposed a multitude of
mechanisms by which cultural change can be effected. In this article we discuss two …

Did human culture arise through an evolutionary transition in individuality (ETI)? To address
this question, we examine the steps of biological ETIs to see how they could apply to the …

Human culture changes over time and varies across space. Two main approaches to study
cultural evolution have developed in the last fifty years: human behavioural ecology and a …

Human behavior and collective actions are strongly affected by social institutions. A question
of great theoretical and practical importance is how successful social institutions get …

The rapid growth of cultural evolutionary science, its expansion into numerous fields, its use
of diverse methods, and several conceptual problems have outpaced corollary …