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Paul Seabright's The Divine Economy is a novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world. Now available, learn more about this compelling and highly original book: hubs.ly/Q02vn_cS0

New paper: The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs with Sarah Peacey et al. Some traditions have been around a long time sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Newly Published in Evolutionary Human Sciences Opinions on hard-to-discuss topics change more via cohort replacement - bit.ly/3QxjE6N By Nicolas Restrepo Ochoa and Stephen Vaisey #AcademicTwitter #cohort_replacement #cultural_change #psychology #Anthropology

Excited to report the book "Macroevolutionaries" by me and Niles Eldredge through Columbia University Press is now available on Google Books: books.google.com/books?id=sCX7E… Miranda Martin #macroevolution #paleontology #palaeontology #naturalhistory

Rob Boyd and Pete Richerson have made arguably the most significant augmentation to Darwinian evolution since Mendelian genetics. They identified and modelled a second stream of inheritance that's shaped our species: culture. I was surprised to learn they'd never done a joint

"The heritability of IQ increases from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared family environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, whereas nurture becomes less." stevestewartwilliams.com/p/12-things-ev…

I assess the major arguments for deep and shallow roots of war. Is there really no evidence for war before 10kya? No! Was war among hunter-gatherers constant? No! Was cooperation important? Yes! Did HGs have war? Yes but like contemporary humans it varied in intensity,

"Evolutionary theory provides a foundation 4 the view that norms result from individual decisions based on preferences & beliefs... not only satisfy our wish to understand the world, but also inform the design of policies aimed at influencing social norms" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Cultural evolution: Where we have been and where we are going (maybe) | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

While the contributions of Feldman, Cavalli-Sforza, Boyd, and Richerson were pivotal, the earliest models of cultural evolution were introduced in 1940s by Nicolas Rashevsky. Half a century of quantitative cultural evolution pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Creanza Lab @LaurelFogarty

Cultural tightness and resilience against environmental shocks in nonindustrial societies | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Increased birth rank of homosexual males: disentangling the older brother effect and sexual antagonism hypothesis tinyurl.com/yc42c5c9

new paper Evolutionary Human Sciences Mason Manning et al 'Norm reinforcement, not just payoff biases or conformity, sustains arbitrary cultural traditions' | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4ikAhyM

Co-evolution of behaviour and beliefs in social dilemmas: estimating material, social, cognitive and cultural determinants sco.lt/5EG4bQ

Social learning with complex contagion — new work by Hiroaki Chiba-Okabe. We introduce a framework that combines payoff-based imitation with conformity or anti-conformity biases, and we study long-term behavioral outcomes in a population. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

"The war of the worldviews" pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Joshua B. Plotkin and Alex McAvoy's commentary on pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Nudging or nagging: The perils of persuasion sciencedirect.com/science/articl…