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March 26, 2024

Why Do Humans Enjoy Fictional Stories?

The imaginary worlds we create and consume are not cultural anomalies, but rather direct manifestations of our cognition.

April 20, 2012

Are Taboos Adaptive? Evidence from the Island of Fiji

Are taboos ignorant superstitions, do they contain adaptive wisdom, or are they a mixture of both?

December 10, 2012

Culture: the Engine of Human Adaptation

Social Learning Leads to Our Greatest Achievements and Worst Errors.

September 9, 2012

How Culture Drove Human Evolution

Why we need to stop distinguishing cultural and biological evolution as separate.

December 16, 2012

Human Rites

Rituals bind us, in modern societies and prehistoric tribes alike. But can our loyalties stretch to all of humankind?

January 30, 2013

Cultural Evolution Changes Bird Song

Thanks to cultural evolution, male Savannah sparrows are changing their tune, partly to attract “the ladies.”

September 25, 2012

The Pace of Cultural Evolution

Empirically demonstrating the pace of cultural evolution.

February 6, 2013

Genes Mix Faster Than Stories

Folk tales' 'DNA' shows that people would sooner have sex with strangers than tell their fables.

April 25, 2013

Animal Culture In Monkeys And Whales

We thought humans only have culture. We were wrong.

March 1, 2013

Dismantling The Paradigm In The Social Sciences

Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics.