Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution

by Tehrani, Jamshid; Kendal, Rachel L.; Kendal, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780198869252
• ISBN10: 0198869258
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192640703
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-10-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Table of Contents

Introduction1. The history of cultural evolution: reflections from leading figures in the field, Joshua Conrad Jackson & Juliet DunstoneApproaches to Cultural Evolution2. Modelling cultural transmission, Laurel Fogarty & Anne Kandler3. Modelling drift and selection in cultural evolution, Alex Bentley, Simon Carrington, & Damian Ruck4. Cultural systems, Fredrik Jansson, Andrew Buskell, & Magnus Enquist5. Experimental investigation of cultural evolution, Alex Mesoudi6. Evolutionary neuroscience of cultural evolution, Dietrich Stout & Erin Hecht7. Evolutionary archaeology, Mike O'Brien8. Cross-Cultural Comparative Methods for Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses, Ruth Mace & Hanzhi May Zhang9. Cultural attraction, Helena Miton10. Philosophy of cultural evolution, Tim LewensInnovation & social Learning: the foundations of cultural evolution11. What is innovation?, Bruce Rawlings & Simon Reader12. What is social learning?, Will Hoppitt & Sonja Wild13. Teaching, Michelle Kline14. What is cumulative cultural evolution?, Christine Caldwell15. When is social learning adaptive?, Rachel Kendal & Robin Watson16. Conformist social learning, Edwin van Leeuwen & Tom Morgan17. Prestige biased social learning, Matt Offord, Charlotte Brand, & Jeremy Kendal18. The cognitive foundations of culture, Cecilia Heyes & Richard Moore19. Life history of social learning tendencies in humans, Daphna Buschbaum & Rebekah Gelpi20. Cultural variation in childhood social learning, Dan Haun, Kari Neldner, & Roman Stengelin21. Cultural Intelligence, Kim SterelnyAnimal Cultures22. What constitutes nonhuman culture and how is it studied?, Caroline Schuppli & Emma Lokuciejewski23. Culture in the great apes, Andy Whiten24. Culture in monkeys, Erica van de Waal & Charlotte Canteloup25. Culture in cetaceans, Ellen Garland & Luke Rendell26. Culture in mammals, Alex Thornton & Josh Arbon27. Culture in birds, Lucy Aplin28. Culture in fish, Culum Brown29. Culture in insects, Etienne Danchin, Guillaume Isabel, & Sabine Nöbel30. Cross species comparisons of human and nonhuman culture Approaches, discoveries, limitations, and future directions, Lara Wood, Gill Vale, Emma Flynn, & Bruce Rawlings31. Anthropogenic effects on animal cultures, Thibaud GruberTechnology32. Cultural transmission of technological skills, Maxime Derex & Tom Morgan33. Tools and culture among early hominins, Claudio Tennie34. Lithic technological evolution, Anna Prentiss35. The Natural Evolution of Computing, Salva Duran-Nebreda & Sergi Valverde36. Digital Culture, Alberto AcerbiArts and Literature37. The Cultural Transmission and Evolution of Folk Narratives, Jamie Tehrani38. Craft Traditions, Chris Buckley39. Cultural Evolution and Music, Mason Youngblood, Yuto Ozaki & Pat Savage40. Signalling and the Cultural Evolution of Art, Jan Verpooten41. Manuscript Traditions, Christopher Howe & Heather Windram42. Modern literature and film, Oleg SobchukReligion43. Universal Cognitive Biases as the Basis for Supernatural Beliefs: Evidence and Critiques, Aiyana Willard, Hugh Turpin & Adam Baimel44. The Cultural Evolution of Religion and Cooperation, Theiss Bendixen, Aaron Lightner & Ben Purzycki45. The Cultural Macroevolution of Religion, Joseph Watts46. The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity, Harvey Whitehouse47. Social learning and religion, Kirsten A. Lesage, Maliki E. Ghossainy, Rebekah A. Richert , & Kathleen CorriveauSociality48. The Cultural Evolution of Sociopolitical Organization: Examining how evolutionary processes acting at different scales have shaped history’s broadest patterns, Tom Currie & Cedric Perret49. Cultural evolution and the economic wealth of nations, Quentin Atkinson & Luke Matthews50. The influence of migration on cultural evolution, Adrian Bell51. Fertility transition, Heidi Colleran & Yi-Ta Lu52. Ethnicity, John Bunce & Richard McElreathLanguage and Communication53. The cultural evolution of language, Rachael Bailes & Christine Cuskley54. Self-domestication and the evolution of language , Limor Raviv & Simon Kirby55. Language phylogenies, Simon Greenhill56. Evolution of writing scripts, Yoolim Kim & Olivier MorinGene culture coevolution57. Dialectics that sweep away ‘COWDUNG’: The Construction of Evolutionary, Cultural and Scientific Niches , Kevin Lala, Marc Feldman, & John Odling Smee58. The cultural niche, Rob Boyd59. Gene-culture coevolution in the cognitive domain , Arnon Lotem, Oren Kolodny, & Michal Arbilly60. Cultural evolution and diet, Mark Thomas & Catherine Walker61. Ancient DNA and cultural evolution, Stephen ShennanApplications62. Applied diffusion of innovations and interventions, Charles Efferson, Sonja Vogt & Lukas von Flüe63. Cultural Evolution and Population Health Interventions, Alexandra Alvergne64. Cultural evolution of ineffective medicine, Micheal de Barra65. Conspiracy theories, Joe Stubbersfield66. Environmental sustainability and climate change, Tim Waring, Monique Borgerhoff-Mulder & Roope Kaaronen67. Animal Conservation, Alison Greggor68. Education, Cristine Legare, Frankie Fong & Alejandro Erut69. Public policy, Michael Muthukrishna & Robin Schimmelpfennig70. Integroup relations, Michele Gelfand, Xinyue Pan & Alex Landry71. Cultural evolution of science, Paul Smaldino, Cailin O'Connor & Jingyi Wu