Sociality influences cultural complexity

Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers

(2012) Coren L. Apicella et al.   NATURE

Cumulative Cultural Evolution and Demography

(2012) Krist Vaesen   PLoS One

Risk of Resource Failure and Toolkit Variation in Small-Scale Farmers and Herders

(2012) Mark Collard et al.   PLoS One

Emergence of social complexity among coastal hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile

(2012) P. A. Marquet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identification of the Social and Cognitive Processes Underlying Human Cumulative Culture

(2012) L. G. Dean et al.   SCIENCE

Innovativeness, population size and cumulative cultural evolution

(2012) Yutaka Kobayashi et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

Explaining brain size variation: from social to cultural brain

(2012) Carel P. van Schaik et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Imitation, pretend play, and childhood: Essential elements in the evolution of human culture?

(2011) Mark Nielsen   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

What drives the evolution of hunter-gatherer subsistence technology? A reanalysis of the risk hypothesis with data from the Pacific Northwest

(2011) M. Collard et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Gene-culture coevolution and the nature of human sociality

(2011) H. Gintis   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On the number of independent cultural traits carried by individuals and populations

(2011) L. Lehmann et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social learning and evolution: the cultural intelligence hypothesis

(2011) C. P. van Schaik et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Culture evolves

(2011) A. Whiten et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation

(2011) R. Boyd et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Middle Stone Age Bedding Construction and Settlement Patterns at Sibudu, South Africa

(2011) L. Wadley et al.   SCIENCE

Co-Residence Patterns in Hunter-Gatherer Societies Show Unique Human Social Structure

(2011) K. R. Hill et al.   SCIENCE

Rates of cultural change and patterns of cultural accumulation in stochastic models of social transmission

(2011) Kenichi Aoki et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

Culture–gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of human prosociality

(2011) Maciej Chudek et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

One cultural parent makes no culture

(2010) Magnus Enquist et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Human cumulative culture in the laboratory: Effects of (micro) population size

(2010) C. A. Caldwell et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

How culture shaped the human genome: bringing genetics and the human sciences together

(2010) Kevin N. Laland et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Number of Cultural Traits Is Correlated with Female Group Size but Not with Male Group Size in Chimpanzee Communities

(2010) Johan Lind et al.   PLoS One

Modeling Effects of Local Extinctions on Culture Change and Diversity in the Paleolithic

(2010) L. S. Premo et al.   PLoS One

Population size predicts technological complexity in Oceania

(2010) M. A. Kline et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion

(2009) Joseph Henrich   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior

(2009) A. Powell et al.   SCIENCE