Game-Changing Innovations: How Culture Can Change the Parameters of Its Own Evolution and Induce Abrupt Cultural Shifts

An ecocultural model predicts Neanderthal extinction through competition with modern humans

(2016) William Gilpin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Understanding cumulative cultural evolution

(2016) Joseph Henrich 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

Rate of language evolution is affected by population size

(2015) Lindell Bromham et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modeling abrupt cultural regime shifts during the Palaeolithic and Stone Age

(2015) Kenichi Aoki   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

Cultural Evolutionary Perspectives on Creativity and Human Innovation

(2015) Laurel Fogarty et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Drivers of technological richness in prehistoric Texas: an archaeological test of the population size and environmental risk hypotheses

(2015) Briggs Buchanan et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation

(2014) Marius Kempe et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

From cultural traditions to cumulative culture: parameterizing the differences between human and nonhuman culture

(2014) Marius Kempe et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Experimental evidence for the influence of group size on cultural complexity

(2013) Maxime Derex et al.   NATURE

Population Size and Cultural Evolution in Nonindustrial Food-Producing Societies

(2013) Mark Collard et al.   PLoS One

Sociality influences cultural complexity

(2013) M. Muthukrishna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Development of Middle Stone Age innovation linked to rapid climate change

(2013) Martin Ziegler et al.   Nature Communications

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

Origins and Genetic Legacy of Neolithic Farmers and Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

(2012) P. Skoglund et al.   SCIENCE

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

Variable Cultural Acquisition Costs Constrain Cumulative Cultural Evolution

(2011) Alex Mesoudi   PLoS One

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

(2011) K. R. Hill et al.   SCIENCE

Cultural conservatism and variability in the Acheulian sequence of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov☆

(2010) Gonen Sharon et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Population size predicts technological complexity in Oceania

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

Ancient DNA Reveals Lack of Continuity between Neolithic Hunter-Gatherers and Contemporary Scandinavians

(2009) Helena Malmström et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe's First Farmers

(2009) B. Bramanti et al.   SCIENCE

Accumulation of independent cultural traits

(2009) Pontus Strimling et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

Why does human culture increase exponentially?

(2008) M. Enquist et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY