Humans live in, rely on, and contribute to groups. Evolution may have biologically prepared
them to quickly identify others as belonging to the in-group (vs. not), to decode emotional …

The last two decades have seen an explosion in research analysing cultural change as a
Darwinian evolutionary process. Here I provide an overview of the theory of cultural …

A New York Times bestseller:" A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of
nonhuman minds."—Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough …

Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral
psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he …

M. Tomasello, A. Kruger, and H. Ratner (1993) proposed a theory of cultural learning
comprising imitative learning, instructed learning, and collaborative learning. Empirical and …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

Highlights•Key design features of language can be explained as the result of cultural
evolution.•Experiments have found that structure emerges through transmission and …

As a discipline, developmental psychology has a long history of relying on animal models
and data collected among distinct cultural groups to enrich and inform theories of the ways …

Highlights•Structure learning may be key to inference from sparse data.•The psychological
and neural bases of structure learning are key challenges.•Normative accounts of structure …

Highlights•The science of cultural norms is an emerging interdisciplinary field.•Norms are
distinctly human, and people intuitively construct and enforce them.•Normative behavior is …