Cultural evolution describes how socially learned ideas, rules, and skills are transmitted and change over time, giving rise to diverse forms of social organization, belief systems, languages ...

Linguists, psychologists and experts in cultural evolution are discovering why we tell stories, how ancient the oldest ones ...

The debate over human uniqueness is shifting as data has emerged suggesting that other animals can also generate cultural ...

This process produces our uniquely complex cultures: Scientists call it cumulative cultural evolution. As an anthropologist, I study a different feature of human culture that researchers are ...