Culture Evolves (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society series B) issue 1567

Front Cover
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Copyright......Page 2
Contents
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Preface......Page 5
Introduction and overview......Page 6
Definitions of core concepts......Page 8
Culture evolves in the animal kingdom......Page 9
Cumulative culture evolves in ancient hominins......Page 10
Human culture evolves and diversifies: how darwinian is cultural evolution?......Page 11
The evolution of cultural minds......Page 12
Concluding remarks......Page 13
REFERENCES......Page 14
Introduction......Page 17
When animals can choose between social and asocial learning......Page 18
Using incorrect social information......Page 19
Changing the quality of social information......Page 20
Conclusion......Page 22
REFERENCES......Page 23
Introduction......Page 26
Fish migrations......Page 27
Mate choice......Page 29
Laboratory ‘traditions’ and the role of conformity......Page 30
Public information use and efficient copying in ninespine sticklebacks......Page 31
The psychological processes underlying fish social learning......Page 32
From animal tradition to human cultures......Page 33
REFERENCES......Page 34
Social learning in birds......Page 37
Cross-fostering experiments on tits......Page 38
Results......Page 39
Social learning of foraging......Page 41
REFERENCES......Page 42
Social learning and individual development......Page 46
Foraging......Page 47
Social learning and group behaviour......Page 49
Can social learning affect evolution?......Page 51
REFERENCES......Page 52
Introduction......Page 56
Hypothesized function of C. capucinus social conventions......Page 57
Social learning of food choice: experimental and field studies......Page 58
What do capuchins learn from close-range observation of food processing?......Page 59
Longitudinal study of association patterns and shared food-processing techniques  in the wild......Page 60
Explaining the differences between c. capucinus and c. apella in social conventions and tool-use traditions......Page 61
Conclusions......Page 62
REFERENCES......Page 63
Introduction......Page 65
Local cultures incorporating, and differentiated by, multiple traditions......Page 67
Linkage of traditions through core cultural ideas......Page 68
Copying sophistication and fidelity......Page 69
Conformity......Page 70
Teaching......Page 71
Discussion......Page 72
REFERENCES......Page 73
Introduction......Page 76
The cultural intelligence hypothesis......Page 77
A stronger version of cultural intelligence......Page 78
Coevolution of social and asocial learning......Page 79
The evolution of intelligence......Page 80
REFERENCES......Page 81
Introduction......Page 85
Analysis......Page 87
Across-species analyses......Page 88
The evolution of primate g......Page 89
Discussion......Page 90
Comparisons with human intelligence......Page 91
Underlying mechanisms......Page 92
REFERENCES......Page 93
Early perspectives on the origins of stone tool technology......Page 96
Olduvai as a sequence of reference......Page 98
The establishment of the modern chrono-stratigraphic framework......Page 99
Changing perspectives on the oldowan......Page 100
A current view of the earliest stone tool-making......Page 101
REFERENCES......Page 102
The evidence of the Levantine Corridor......Page 106
Exploitation of biological resources......Page 107
The lithic assemblages......Page 108
‘Technical and procedural know-how’, ‘communication’, ‘specialization’ and ‘social cognition’......Page 112
Language......Page 113
REFERENCES......Page 114
Glossary......Page 116
Introduction......Page 118
Oldowan (ca 2.6-1.4 Ma; figure 
1a)......Page 119
Early Acheulean (ca 1.6-0.9 Ma)......Page 120
Large cutting tools (figure 1c)......Page 121
Late Achuelean shaping (figure 1d)......Page 122
Lower palaeolithic culture change......Page 123
REFERENCES......Page 125
Introduction......Page 128
Subsistence strategy and technology......Page 129
Symbolic mediated behaviour......Page 132
Discussion and conclusion......Page 134
REFERENCES......Page 135
Introduction......Page 138
The ‘meme’s eye-view’......Page 139
Characterizing cultural drift......Page 140
The evolution of complex technologies......Page 144
Discussion......Page 145
REFERENCES......Page 146
Culture and cultures......Page 148
Human diversity: a biological and cultural paradox......Page 149
Evolution of Homo sapiens: constraining cultural evolution......Page 150
Phase 4: climate, environment and fragmentation......Page 151
Resources, ecology and environment......Page 152
The life history of a community: kinship and reproduction......Page 153
Extinction......Page 154
What advice should we give the culturally ambitious chimpanzee?......Page 155
REFERENCES......Page 156
Dating difficulties......Page 158
The origin of the indo-european languages......Page 161
The austronesian expansion......Page 163
REFERENCES......Page 166
Introduction......Page 169
Frequency of use......Page 171
Rates of lexical replacement......Page 173
Discussion......Page 174
REFERENCES......Page 175
Introduction......Page 176
Evolutionary sequences......Page 178
Direction of evolution......Page 180
Co-evolution of social and political traits......Page 181
Discussion......Page 182
REFERENCES......Page 184
Introduction......Page 186
Methods......Page 187
Results......Page 188
Methods......Page 189
Results......Page 190
Discussion: what does the tournament imply for cultural evolution?......Page 193
REFERENCES......Page 195
Introduction......Page 197
Factors hypothesized to influence toolkit structure......Page 198
Rationale for current study......Page 200
Predictions tested in current study......Page 201
Comparison of risk on the northwest coast and the plateau......Page 202
Discussion......Page 203
REFERENCES......Page 205
Evidence from fijian villages for adaptive learning biases......Page 207
Ethnographic sketch and methods......Page 209
Results......Page 210
Discussion......Page 213
REFERENCES......Page 215
Introduction......Page 217
Is natural pedagogy human-specific?......Page 218
Is natural pedagogy universal?......Page 220
The evolution of natural pedagogy......Page 222
Conclusions......Page 223
REFERENCES......Page 224
Prior theories of overimitation......Page 226
An alternative view of overimitation: automatic causal encoding......Page 227
Using competition to test the scope of overimitation......Page 228
Results and discussion......Page 229
Procedure......Page 230
The limits of overimitation......Page 231
Procedure......Page 232
Conclusions and future directions......Page 233
REFERENCES......Page 234
Introduction......Page 236
Processes of social learning: does teaching exist in hunter-gatherers?......Page 237
Methods......Page 238
Physical and emotional intimacy......Page 239
Mixed adult-child groups......Page 240
The case for vertical transmission......Page 241
Processes of social learning: does teaching exist in hunter-gatherers?......Page 242
Summary and discussion......Page 243
REFERENCES......Page 245
Introduction......Page 247
Attachment......Page 248
Monitoring for accuracy......Page 249
Weighing accuracy against familiarity......Page 250
Group membership......Page 251
Conclusions......Page 253
REFERENCES......Page 254
Back Cover
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