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Publikováno v:
Evolutionary Human Sciences, Vol 5 (2023)
Cattle brands (ownership marks left on animals) are subject to forces influencing other graphic codes: the copying of constituent parts, pressure for distinctiveness and pressure for complexity. The historical record of cattle brands in some US state
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https://doaj.org/article/c9e024ffd54849329ae93df1b56e3a50
Publikováno v:
Entropy, Vol 24, Iss 9, p 1175 (2022)
With the increase in massive digitized datasets of cultural artefacts, social and cultural scientists have an unprecedented opportunity for the discovery and expansion of cultural theory. The WikiArt dataset is one such example, with over 250,000 hig
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https://doaj.org/article/0e9bd4934c60447697756a53d8b1b451
Publikováno v:
Evolutionary Human Sciences, Vol 3 (2021)
Typical examples of cultural phenomena all exhibit a degree of similarity across time and space at the level of the population. As such, a fundamental question for any science of culture is, what ensures this stability in the first place? Here we foc
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https://doaj.org/article/7d6a8003e2884ee7bb1c3f7c3d9a831a
Autor:
Helena Miton, Olivier Morin
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 8, p e0220793 (2019)
Zipf's law of abbreviation, relating more frequent signals to shorter signal lengths, applies to sounds in a variety of communication systems, both human and non-human. It also applies to writing systems: more frequent words tend to be encoded by les
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https://doaj.org/article/75850078c1774fbfb54db57e4b152e24
Publikováno v:
Evolutionary Psychology, Vol 14 (2016)
Homophobia encompasses a variety of attitudes and behaviors with distinct causal paths. We focus on aggressive homophobia, a propensity to feel anger and express aggression toward gay men. We investigated the conjecture that homosexual males might be
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https://doaj.org/article/f9f33d2750034b02a90af689ab6cca9e
Autor:
Barbara Morrison, Xiaolin Ma, Juan Wang, Yue Li, Emily Lena Jones, William Timothy Treal Taylor, Igor Chechushkov, Enkhbayar Mijiddorj, Tserendorj Odbaatar, Helena Miton, Wenquan Fan, Chinbold Bayandelger, Jinping Cao, Yanfeng Hou, Chengrui Zhang, Bryan K. Miller, Robert Cook, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan
Publikováno v:
Antiquity. 95:1478-1494
Across Eurasia, horse transport transformed ancient societies. Although evidence for chariotry is well dated, the origins of horse riding are less clear. Techniques to distinguish chariotry from riding in archaeological samples rely on elements not t
Autor:
Helena Miton
Cultural attraction theory, sometimes referred to as the ‘Paris school’ in cultural evolution, has gained traction in cultural evolution over the past couple of decades. I first present cultural attraction by suggesting that it focuses on one mec
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::242fae0becaa39750c7f9f461514d08e
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qs2et
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qs2et
Cattle brands (ownership marks left on animals) are subject to forces influencing other graphic codes: the copying of constituent parts, pressure for distinctiveness, and pressure for complexity. The historical record of cattle brands in some US stat
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::1ec309b6a17a23273b5b9fb04ac28a31
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h5t7b
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h5t7b
Autor:
Helena Miton, Simon DeDeo
A wide variety of cultural practices take the form of "tacit" knowledge, where the rules and principles are neither obvious to an observer nor known explicitly by the practitioners. This poses a problem for cultural evolution: if beginners cannot sim
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http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03582
http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03582
Publikováno v:
Current Anthropology
A familiar story about the evolution of alphabets is that individual letters originated in iconic representations of real things. Over time, these naturalistic pictures became simplified into abstract forms. Thus, the iconic ox’s head of Egyptian h
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::d396ce6e6081bb2c332441b71816bbe5
https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-BB4A-221.11116/0000-0009-BB4C-0
https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-BB4A-221.11116/0000-0009-BB4C-0