List of works - Alex Mesoudi

A bias for social information in human cultural transmission

scientific article published in August 2006

A science of culture: Clarifications and extensions

article

Adult learners in a novel environment use prestige-biased social learning.

scientific article published on 13 August 2012

An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused

article

An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation

An experimental simulation of the “copy-successful-individuals” cultural learning strategy: adaptive landscapes, producer–scrounger dynamics, and informational access costs

article

An experimental test of the accumulated copying error model of cultural mutation for Acheulean handaxe size

scientific article

Beyond DNA: integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution

scientific article

Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Considering the role of time budgets on copy-error rates in material culture traditions: an experimental assessment

scientific article

Copying error, evolution, and phylogenetic signal in artifactual traditions: An experimental approach using “model artifacts”

article

Correction: How Do People Become W.E.I.R.D.? Migration Reveals the Cultural Transmission Mechanisms Underlying Variation in Psychological Processes

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Correction: Migration, acculturation, and the maintenance of between-group cultural variation

Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies

article

Cultural Evolution: Overview

Cultural diffusion in humans and other animals

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

Cultural evolution in more than two dimensions: distinguishing social learning biases and identifying payoff structures.

scientific article

Cultural evolution: integrating psychology, evolution and culture

article

Cultural selection and biased transformation: two dynamics of cultural evolution

scientific article published in 2021

Cultural traits as units of analysis

scientific article (publication date: 12 December 2010)

Culturally transmitted paternity beliefs and the evolution of human mating behaviour.

scientific article published in May 2007

Cumulative Cultural Evolution within Evolving Population Structures

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Differences in Manufacturing Traditions and Assemblage-Level Patterns: the Origins of Cultural Differences in Archaeological Data

scholarly article by Kerstin Schillinger published in March 2016

Do Online Voting Patterns Reflect Evolved Features of Human Cognition? An Exploratory Empirical Investigation

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Ethics, evolution and culture

scientific article

Evolving the human niche

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Experimental and theoretical models of human cultural evolution.

scientific article published on 10 March 2014

Experimental priming of independent and interdependent activity does not affect culturally variable psychological processes.

scientific article

Extended evolutionary theory makes human culture more amenable to evolutionary analysis

article

Extending the behavioral sciences framework: Clarification of methods, predictions, and concepts

Factors affecting Acheulean handaxe variation: Experimental insights, microevolutionary processes, and macroevolutionary outcomes

scholarly article

Foresight in cultural evolution

From cultural traditions to cumulative culture: parameterizing the differences between human and nonhuman culture

scientific article published on 10 June 2014

Has mental time travel really affected human culture?

article

Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution.

scientific article published in January 2015

How Do People Become W.E.I.R.D.? Migration Reveals the Cultural Transmission Mechanisms Underlying Variation in Psychological Processes

scientific article

How cultural evolutionary theory can inform social psychology and vice versa.

scientific article

If we are all cultural Darwinians what's the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in the field of cultural evolution

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Insect Swarm Intelligence

scientific article published in Science

Introduction to “Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution During the Palaeolithic”

Introduction: integrating genetic and cultural evolutionary approaches to language

linguistic article by David Adger, Aley Mesoudi and Alan G McElligott

Learning in the Acheulean: Experimental Insights Using Handaxe Form as a ‘Model Organism’

Migration, acculturation, and the maintenance of between-group cultural variation

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

No evidence that omission and confirmation biases affect the perception and recall of vaccine-related information

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Perspective: is human cultural evolution Darwinian? Evidence reviewed from the perspective of the Origin of Species

scientific article

Prestige and dominance-based hierarchies exist in naturally occurring human groups, but are unrelated to task-specific knowledge.

scientific article published in May 2019

Pursuing Darwin's curious parallel: Prospects for a science of cultural evolution.

scientific article

Random copying, frequency-dependent copying and culture change

article

Review. Establishing an experimental science of culture: animal social diffusion experiments

scientific article

Review. The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution

scientific article

Sex-biased sound symbolism in english-language first names.

scientific article

Social learning solves the problem of narrow-peaked search landscapes: experimental evidence in humans

scientific article

Statistical Analyses Cannot be Divorced from Archaeological Theory: A Reply to Potter

scholarly article by Alex Mesoudi published in April 2012

The Cultural Transmission of Great Basin Projectile-Point Technology I: An Experimental Simulation

article

The Cultural Transmission of Great Basin Projectile-Point Technology II: An Agent-Based Computer Simulation

article

The Evolution of Individual and Cultural Variation in Social Learning

scientific article

The cultural dynamics of copycat suicide

scientific article

The impact of imitative versus emulative learning mechanisms on artifactual variation: implications for the evolution of material culture

article

Towards a unified science of cultural evolution

scientific article

Transmission of Cultural Variants in the North American Paleolithic

article

Understanding Agriculture within the Frameworks of Cumulative Cultural Evolution, Gene-Culture Co-Evolution, and Cultural Niche Construction

journal article from 'Human Ecology' published in 2019

Understanding cumulative cultural evolution

scientific article published on 25 October 2016

Variable cultural acquisition costs constrain cumulative cultural evolution

scientific article

What is cumulative cultural evolution?

scientific article published in June 2018

List of works by Alex Mesoudi

A bias for social information in human cultural transmission

A science of culture: Clarifications and extensions

Adult learners in a novel environment use prestige-biased social learning.

An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused

An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation

An experimental simulation of the “copy-successful-individuals” cultural learning strategy: adaptive landscapes, producer–scrounger dynamics, and informational access costs

An experimental test of the accumulated copying error model of cultural mutation for Acheulean handaxe size

Beyond DNA: integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution

Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology

Considering the role of time budgets on copy-error rates in material culture traditions: an experimental assessment

Copying error, evolution, and phylogenetic signal in artifactual traditions: An experimental approach using “model artifacts”

Correction: How Do People Become W.E.I.R.D.? Migration Reveals the Cultural Transmission Mechanisms Underlying Variation in Psychological Processes

Correction: Migration, acculturation, and the maintenance of between-group cultural variation

Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies

Cultural Evolution: Overview

Cultural diffusion in humans and other animals

Cultural evolution in more than two dimensions: distinguishing social learning biases and identifying payoff structures.

Cultural evolution: integrating psychology, evolution and culture

Cultural selection and biased transformation: two dynamics of cultural evolution

Cultural traits as units of analysis

Culturally transmitted paternity beliefs and the evolution of human mating behaviour.

Cumulative Cultural Evolution within Evolving Population Structures

Differences in Manufacturing Traditions and Assemblage-Level Patterns: the Origins of Cultural Differences in Archaeological Data

Do Online Voting Patterns Reflect Evolved Features of Human Cognition? An Exploratory Empirical Investigation

Ethics, evolution and culture

Evolving the human niche

Experimental and theoretical models of human cultural evolution.

Experimental priming of independent and interdependent activity does not affect culturally variable psychological processes.

Extended evolutionary theory makes human culture more amenable to evolutionary analysis

Extending the behavioral sciences framework: Clarification of methods, predictions, and concepts

Factors affecting Acheulean handaxe variation: Experimental insights, microevolutionary processes, and macroevolutionary outcomes

Foresight in cultural evolution

From cultural traditions to cumulative culture: parameterizing the differences between human and nonhuman culture

Has mental time travel really affected human culture?

Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution.

How Do People Become W.E.I.R.D.? Migration Reveals the Cultural Transmission Mechanisms Underlying Variation in Psychological Processes

How cultural evolutionary theory can inform social psychology and vice versa.

If we are all cultural Darwinians what's the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in the field of cultural evolution

Insect Swarm Intelligence

Introduction to “Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution During the Palaeolithic”

Introduction: integrating genetic and cultural evolutionary approaches to language

Learning in the Acheulean: Experimental Insights Using Handaxe Form as a ‘Model Organism’

Migration, acculturation, and the maintenance of between-group cultural variation

No evidence that omission and confirmation biases affect the perception and recall of vaccine-related information

Perspective: is human cultural evolution Darwinian? Evidence reviewed from the perspective of the Origin of Species

Prestige and dominance-based hierarchies exist in naturally occurring human groups, but are unrelated to task-specific knowledge.

Pursuing Darwin's curious parallel: Prospects for a science of cultural evolution.

Random copying, frequency-dependent copying and culture change

Review. Establishing an experimental science of culture: animal social diffusion experiments

Review. The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution

Sex-biased sound symbolism in english-language first names.

Social learning solves the problem of narrow-peaked search landscapes: experimental evidence in humans

Statistical Analyses Cannot be Divorced from Archaeological Theory: A Reply to Potter

The Cultural Transmission of Great Basin Projectile-Point Technology I: An Experimental Simulation

The Cultural Transmission of Great Basin Projectile-Point Technology II: An Agent-Based Computer Simulation

The Evolution of Individual and Cultural Variation in Social Learning

The cultural dynamics of copycat suicide

The impact of imitative versus emulative learning mechanisms on artifactual variation: implications for the evolution of material culture

Towards a unified science of cultural evolution

Transmission of Cultural Variants in the North American Paleolithic

Understanding Agriculture within the Frameworks of Cumulative Cultural Evolution, Gene-Culture Co-Evolution, and Cultural Niche Construction

Understanding cumulative cultural evolution

Variable cultural acquisition costs constrain cumulative cultural evolution

What is cumulative cultural evolution?