The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most
important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notion of …

Cumulative cultural evolution (CCE)—defined as the process by which beneficial
modifications are culturally transmitted and progressively accumulated over time—has long …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Theories of how humans came to be so ecologically dominant increasingly centre on the
adaptive abilities of human culture and its capacity for cumulative change and high-fidelity …

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

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 …

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

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 …

Abstract The goal of Artificial Life research, as articulated by Chris Langton, is “to contribute
to theoretical biology by locating life-as-we-know-it within the larger picture of life-as-it-could …

It has been suggested that technological variations associated with Still Bay assemblages of
southern Africa have not been addressed adequately. Here we present a study developed to …