Pioneer naturalists such as Whewell, Lyell, Humboldt, Darwin and Wallace acknowledged
the interactions between ecological and evolutionary forces, as well as the roles of …

From emails to social media, from instant messaging to political memes, the way we produce
and transmit culture is radically changing. Understanding the consequences of the massive …

A widely accepted view in the cultural evolutionary literature is that culture forms a dynamic
system of elements (or 'traits') linked together by a variety of relationships. Despite this, large …

Linking the likelihood of convergent evolution to the technologies' complexity, this paper
identifies the scales of technological diffusion and convergence, ie, the evolving of structures …

Identifying competitive exclusion at the macroevolutionary scale has typically relied on
demonstrating a reciprocal, contradictory response by two co-occurring, functionally similar …

Nanotechnology is an emerging and promising field of research. Creating sufficient
technological diversity among its alternatives is important for the long-term success of …

Questions about the evolution of material culture are widespread in the humanities and
social sciences. Statistical modeling of long-term changes in material culture is less common …

Archaeology is often defined by our interest in how cultural traditions change over time and
generate patterns of material culture diversity. As acknowledged throughout the history of …

Understanding the forces that drive the dynamics of adaptive evolution is a goal of many sub-
fields and applications of evolutionary biology, including in evolutionary computation. The …

Researchers in the field of cultural evolutionary theory pursue an eclectic program of
investigation that lies at the intersection of cognitive science, anthropology, and evolutionary …