Behavioral researchers increasingly recognize the need for more diverse samples that
capture the breadth of human experience. Current attempts to establish generalizability across …

Cultural evolution is partly driven by the strategies individuals use to learn behaviour from
others. Previous experiments on strategic learning let groups of participants engage in …

Population size has long been considered an important driver of cultural diversity and
complexity. Results from population genetics, however, demonstrate that in populations with …

Collective dynamics emerge from countless individual decisions. Yet, we poorly understand
the processes governing dynamically-interacting individuals in human collectives under …

Consideration of the properties of the sources of selection potentially helps biologists
account for variation in selection. Here we explore how the variability of natural selection is …

Collective dynamics play a key role in everyday decision-making. Whether social influence
promotes the spread of accurate information and ultimately results in adaptive behavior or …

Social learning and life history interact in human adaptation, but nearly all models of the
evolution of social learning omit age structure and population regulation. Further progress is …

Humans are uniquely capable social learners. Our capacity to learn from others across
short and long timescales is a driving force behind the success of our species. Yet there are …

Individuals often respond phenotypically to environmental challenges by innovating and
adopting novel behavioral variants. Behavioral (or ‘cultural’) variants are defined here as …

Culture and demography jointly facilitate flexible human adaptation, yet it still remains
unclear how social learning operates in populations with age structure. Here, we present a …