Cultural evolutionary theory conceptualises culture as an information-transmission system
whose dynamics take on evolutionary properties. Within this framework, however, innovation …

How language began is one of the oldest questions in science, but theories remain
speculative due to a lack of direct evidence. Here, we report two experiments that generate …

Bodily mimesis, the capacity to use the body representationally, was one of the key
innovations that allowed early humans to go beyond the 'baseline'of generalized ape …

Experimental semiotics (ES), the study of “novel forms of communication which people
develop when they cannot use pre-established communication”(Galantucci et al., 2012), has …

In their landmark 2010 paper,“The weirdest people in the world?”, Henrich, Heine, and
Norenzayan outlined a serious methodological problem for the psychological and …

The evolution of language has developed into a large research field. Two questions are
particularly relevant for this strand of research: firstly, how did the human capacity for …

This paper discusses nearly eight hundred reviews posted on Google search engine about
twenty prisons in Spain and the United States. These countries have cultural values that are …

Children and subadults were obviously part of ancient human communities, and almost
certainly, in important ways their activities were distinctive; they did not routinely act like …

Naturalistic studies show that children can create language‐like communication systems in
the absence of conventional language. However, experimental evidence is mixed. We …