After seeing an action sequence children and adults tend to copy causally relevant and,
more strikingly, even perceivably unnecessary actions in relation to the given goal. This …

Cultural evolution theory posits that a major factor in human ecological success is our high-
fidelity and selective social learning, which permits the accumulation of adaptive knowledge …

Developmental research has the potential to address some of the critical gaps in our
scientific understanding of the role played by cultural learning in ontogenetic outcomes. The …

Highlights•Evolved, early-developing relational representations and motives likely undergird
the social psychology of hierarchy.•Infants and young children form, represent, and …

Cultural transmission biases such as prestige are thought to have been a primary driver in
shaping the dynamics of human cultural evolution. However, few empirical studies have …

Human children, in contrast to other species, are frequently cast as prolific “over‐imitators”.
However, previous studies of “over‐imitation” have overlooked many important real‐world …

When imitating novel actions, typically developing preschoolers often copy components of
the demonstration that are unrelated to the modeled action's goal, a phenomenon known as …

Some cultural evolution researchers have argued for the importance of prestige bias as a
systematic and widespread social learning bias, that structures human social learning and …

Discussions regarding entomophagy in humans have been typically led by entomologists.
While anthropologists devote much time to understanding diverse human subsistence …

Many cultural phenomena evolve through a Darwinian process whereby adaptive variants
are selected and spread at the expense of competing variants. While cultural evolutionary …