Various studies have investigated cognitive mechanisms underlying culture in humans and
other great apes. However, the adaptive reasons for the evolution of uniquely sophisticated …

How did humans become clever enough to live in nearly every major ecosystem on earth,
create vaccines against deadly plagues, explore the oceans depths, and routinely traverse …

Behavioral genetics and cultural evolution have both revolutionized our understanding of
human behavior–largely independent of each other. Here, we reconcile these two fields …

Interventions are to the social sciences what inventions are to the physical sciences–an
application of science as technology. Behavioural science has emerged as a powerful toolkit …

It is widely believed that diversity arising from different skills enhances the performance of
teams, and in particular, their ability to learn and innovate. However, diversity has also been …

Although acculturation psychology is extensively studied in the social sciences, research
progress has slowed due to overused methodologies and theories and emerging …

Uchiyama et al. propose a unified model linking cultural evolutionary theory to behavior
genetics (BG) to enhance generalizability, enrich explanation, and predict how social factors …

The goal of this themed issue and the associated Royal Society and British Academy joint
Discussion Meeting is to advance, and bridge between, two topics and their respective …

We study whether interactions between individuals with different skills, expertise and
perspectives influenced innovation in US counties from 1850 to 1940. We introduce and …

累积文化演化(Cumulative Cultural Evolution, CCE) 指随着时间推移, 通过个体或群体间的多种
社会传递和修改创新, 人类文化在效率, 功能, 复杂性等方面发生了适应性的变化 …