This open-ended imagination allows humans to constantly push boundaries, while animal cultures often hit evolutionary ceilings. Human culture enriches itself perpetually, creating a virtuous ...

18, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution ... underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved ...

For most of human history ... remains one of the leading ways of thinking about cultural evolution. And, of course, the theory is a meme itself.

So one of the things that’s really mysterious about people is the evolution of our cognitive complexity, our long childhoods, language, material culture ... to happen in human evolution ...

Or so the theory went. Now ... Through open-ended cultural evolution, human beings produce open-endedness in culture. In this respect, our species is unparalleled. Researchers have not yet ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared ...

and the mission is to explore human biology and behavior using evolutionary theory,” Andrew K. Yegian, the assistant director of undergraduate studies for the concentration, said. “That is ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex story of connection, identity, and cultural exchange. Between 130,000 and ...

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new ...

Or so the theory went. Now, though ... The space of cultural possibilities, suddenly, has expanded. Through open-ended cultural evolution, human beings produce open-endedness in culture. In this ...