Insights into drivers of mobility and cultural dynamics of African hunter–gatherers over the past 120 000 years

Whole-genome sequencing reveals a complex African population demographic history and signatures of local adaptation

(2023) Shaohua Fan et al.   CELL

Insights into drivers of mobility and cultural dynamics of African hunter–gatherers over the past 120 000 years

(2023) Johannes Zonker et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Population interconnectivity over the past 120,000 years explains distribution and diversity of Central African hunter-gatherers

(2022) Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mathematical modeling of spatio-temporal population dynamics and application to epidemic spreading

(2021) Stefanie Winkelmann et al.   MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES

Hunter–gatherer foraging networks promote information transmission

(2021) Ketika Garg et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history

(2020) Mark Lipson et al.   NATURE

Hunter-gatherer multilevel sociality accelerates cumulative cultural evolution

(2020) Andrea B. Migliano et al.   Science Advances

A multilevel analytical framework for studying cultural evolution in prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies

(2020) Valéria Romano et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Cumulative Cultural Evolution within Evolving Population Structures

(2020) Maxime Derex et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

High-resolution terrestrial climate, bioclimate and vegetation for the last 120,000 years

(2020) Robert M. Beyer et al.   Scientific Data

Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies

(2019) Douglas W. Bird et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Cultural selection shapes network structure

(2019) Marco Smolla et al.   Science Advances

Divide and conquer: intermediate levels of population fragmentation maximize cultural accumulation

(2018) Maxime Derex et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Human mobility and innovation spreading in ancient times: a stochastic agent-based simulation approach

(2018) Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad et al.   EPJ Data Science

Environmental factors drive language density more in food-producing than in hunter–gatherer populations

(2018) Curdin Derungs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Was inter-population connectivity of Neanderthals and modern humans the driver of the Upper Paleolithic transition rather than its product?

(2018) Gili Greenbaum et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Cultural complexity and demography: The case of folktales

(2017) Alberto Acerbi et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Greater than the sum of its parts? Modelling population contact and interaction of cultural repertoires

(2017) Nicole Creanza et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Hunter-gatherer residential mobility and the marginal value of rainforest patches

(2017) Vivek V. Venkataraman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cultural evolutionary theory: How culture evolves and why it matters

(2017) Nicole Creanza et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers

(2017) Martin Sikora et al.   SCIENCE

Networks of Food Sharing Reveal the Functional Significance of Multilevel Sociality in Two Hunter-Gatherer Groups

(2016) Mark Dyble et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Distribution and Numbers of Pygmies in Central African Forests

(2016) Jesús Olivero et al.   PLoS One

Partial connectivity increases cultural accumulation within groups

(2016) Maxime Derex et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales

(2016) Sara Graça da Silva et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Camp stability predicts patterns of hunter–gatherer cooperation

(2016) Daniel Smith et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Transition to farming more likely for small, conservative groups with property rights, but increased productivity is not essential

(2015) Elizabeth M. Gallagher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution in leaps: The punctuated accumulation and loss of cultural innovations

(2015) Oren Kolodny et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hunter-Gatherer Inter-Band Interaction Rates: Implications for Cumulative Culture

(2014) Kim R. Hill et al.   PLoS One

Risk, mobility or population size? Drivers of technological richness among contact-period western North American hunter-gatherers

(2013) M. Collard et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The cognitive bases of human tool use

(2012) Krist Vaesen   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2009) Christopher S. Henshilwood et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

(2009) C. Tennie et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Additional evidence on the use of personal ornaments in the Middle Paleolithic of North Africa

(2009) F. d'Errico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inferring population histories using cultural data

(2009) D. S. Rogers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior

(2009) A. Powell et al.   SCIENCE

The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution

(2008) A. Mesoudi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES