Despite prolonged interest in comparing brain size and behavioral proxies of "intelligence"
across taxa, the adaptive and cognitive significance of brain size variation remains elusive. …

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 biology…

Abstract Concepts from cultural attractor theory are now used in domains far from their
original home in anthropology and cultural evolution. Yet these concepts have not been …

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 …

Kevin Laland and colleagues have put forward a number of arguments motivating an
extended evolutionary synthesis. Here I examine Laland et al.'s central concept of reciprocal …

In their article, Thom Scott‐Phillips, Stefaan Blancke, and Christophe Heintz do a commendable
job summarizing the position and misunderstandings of “cultural attraction theory” (CAT)…

Cumulative cultural evolution is often claimed to be distinctive of human culture. Such
claims are typically supported with examples of complex and historically late‐appearing …

Cultural disparity – the variation across cultural traits such as knowledge, skill, and belief –
is a complex phenomenon, studied by a number of researchers with an expanding empirical …

… 3 We understand the ‘fine-grained’ nature of the dependency relationship as an
expression of what Woodward ([2010]) would call ‘proportionality’: a standard for evaluating …

Morin has written a rich and valuable book. Its main aim is to isolate the factors involved in
maintaining behavioural lineages over time, and to understand how these factors might …