Highlights•Environmental surveillance of AMR is missing from current One Health
strategies.•Integrated surveillance can benefit clinical practice and mitigate the spread of …

In recent years, the phenomenon of cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) has become the
focus of major research interest in biology, psychology and anthropology. Some researchers …

Human cultural traits—behaviors, ideas, and technologies that can be learned from other
individuals—can exhibit complex patterns of transmission and evolution, and researchers …

The Anthropocene is characterized by accelerating change and global challenges of
increasing complexity. Inspired by what some have called a polycrisis, we explore whether …

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

Identifying the determinants of cumulative cultural evolution is a key issue in the
interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution. A widely held view is that large and well …

The concept of cultural evolution was fundamental to the foundation of academic musicology
and the subfield of comparative musicology, but largely disappeared from discussion after …

Archaeological accounts of cultural change reveal a fundamental conflict: Some suggest that
change is gradual, accelerating over time, whereas others indicate that it is punctuated, with …

Attempts to integrate human culture, history, or symbolic imagination into a comprehensive
theory of evolution have, up to now, foundered on a bifurcation between mind and nature …

This theme issue explores how and why behavioural innovation occurs, and the
consequences of innovation for individuals, groups and populations. A vast literature on …