Maintenance of prior behaviour can enhance cultural selection
Boyd, R., Richerson, P. J. & Henrich, J. The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108, 10918–10925 (2011).
Cavalli-Sforza, L. L., Feldman, M. W., Chen, K. H. & Dornbusch, S. M. Theory and observation in cultural transmission. Science 218, 19–27 (1982).
Csibra, G. & Gergely, G. Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 366, 1149–1157 (2011).
Boyd, R. & Richerson, P. J. Culture and the Evolutionary Process (University of Chicago Press, 1985).
Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. & Feldman, M. W. Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach (Princeton University Press, 1989).
Whiten, A., Hinde, R. A., Laland, K. N. & Stringer, C. B. Culture evolves. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 366, 938–948 (2011).
Mesoudi, A., Whiten, A. & Laland, K. N. Perspective: Is human cultural evolution Darwinian? Evidence reviewed from the perspective of The Origin of Species. Evolution 58, 1–11 (2004).
Basalla, G. The Evolution of Technology (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Eriksson, K. & Coultas, J. C. Corpses, maggots, poodles and rats: Emotional selection operating in three phases of cultural transmission of urban legends. J. Cogn. Cult. 14, 1–26 (2014).
Nia, H. T. et al. The evolution of air resonance power efficiency in the violin and its ancestors. Proc. R. Soc. Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 471, 20140905 (2015).
Vincenti, W. G. Real-world variation-selection in the evolution of technological form: Historical examples. In Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process (ed. Ziman, J.) 174–189 (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Morgan, T. J. H. et al. Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language. Nat. Commun. 6, 6029 (2015).
Mesoudi, A. & O’Brien, M. J. The cultural transmission of Great Basin projectile-point technology I: An experimental simulation. Am. Antiq. 73, 3–28 (2008).
Derex, M., Beugin, M.-P., Godelle, B. & Raymond, M. Experimental evidence for the influence of group size on cultural complexity. Nature 503, 389–391 (2013).
Mesoudi, A. An experimental simulation of the “copy-successful-individuals” cultural learning strategy: Adaptive landscapes, producer–scrounger dynamics, and informational access costs. Evol. Hum. Behav. 29, 350–363 (2008).
Caldwell, C. A. & Millen, A. E. Social learning mechanisms and cumulative cultural evolution: Is imitation necessary?. Psychol. Sci. 20, 1478–1483 (2009).
Fay, N., De Kleine, N., Walker, B. & Caldwell, C. A. Increasing population size can inhibit cumulative cultural evolution. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 116, 6726–6731 (2019).
Fay, N., Garrod, S. & Roberts, L. The fitness and functionality of culturally evolved communication systems. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 363, 3553–3561 (2008).
Kirby, S., Cornish, H. & Smith, K. Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 105, 10681–10686 (2008).
Fay, N. & Ellison, T. M. The cultural evolution of human communication systems in different sized populations: Usability trumps learnability. PLoS ONE 8, e71781 (2013).
Lyons, D. E., Young, A. G. & Keil, F. C. The hidden structure of overimitation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 104, 19751–19756 (2007).
Bonaccio, S. & Dalal, R. S. Advice taking and decision-making: An integrative literature review, and implications for the organizational sciences. Organ. Behav. Hum. Decis. Process. 101, 127–151 (2006).
Eriksson, K. & Strimling, P. Biases for acquiring information individually rather than socially. J. Evol. Psychol. 7, 309–329 (2009).
Hodges, B. H. Rethinking conformity and imitation: Divergence, convergence, and social understanding. Front. Psychol. 5, 726 (2014).
Mesoudi, A., Chang, L., Murray, K. & Lu, H. J. Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution. Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 282, 20142209 (2015).
Yaniv, I. & Kleinberger, E. Advice taking in decision making: Egocentric discounting and reputation formation. Organ. Behav. Hum. Decis. Process. 83, 260–281 (2000).
Morin, O., Jacquet, P. O., Vaesen, K. & Acerbi, A. Social information use and social information waste. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B 376, 20200052 (2021).
Harrison, R. A. & Whiten, A. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) display limited behavioural flexibility when faced with a changing foraging task requiring tool use. PeerJ 6, e4366 (2018).
Gruber, T., Muller, M. N., Reynolds, V., Wrangham, R. & Zuberbühler, K. Community-specific evaluation of tool affordances in wild chimpanzees. Sci. Rep. 1, 128 (2011).
Davis, S. J., Vale, G. L., Schapiro, S. J., Lambeth, S. P. & Whiten, A. Foundations of cumulative culture in apes: Improved foraging efficiency through relinquishing and combining witnessed behaviours in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Sci. Rep. 6, 35953 (2016).
Nakahashi, W., Wakano, J. Y. & Henrich, J. Adaptive social learning strategies in temporally and spatially varying environments. Hum. Nat. 23, 386–418 (2012).
McElreath, R. et al. Beyond existence and aiming outside the laboratory: Estimating frequency-dependent and pay-off-biased social learning strategies. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 363, 3515–3528 (2008).
Kendal, J., Giraldeau, L.-A. & Laland, K. The evolution of social learning rules: Payoff-biased and frequency-dependent biased transmission. J. Theor. Biol. 260, 210–219 (2009).
Ehn, M. & Laland, K. Adaptive strategies for cumulative cultural learning. J. Theor. Biol. 301, 103–111 (2012).
Enquist, M., Eriksson, K. & Ghirlanda, S. Critical social learning: A solution to Rogers’s paradox of nonadaptive culture. Am. Anthropol. 109, 727–734 (2007).
Kameda, T. & Nakanishi, D. Does social/cultural learning increase human adaptability?: Rogers’s question revisited. Evol. Hum. Behav. 24, 242–260 (2003).
Rendell, L., Fogarty, L. & Laland, K. N. Rogers’ paradox recast and resolved: Population structure and the evolution of social learning strategies. Evolution 64, 534–548 (2010).
Rogers, A. R. Does biology constrain culture?. Am. Anthropol. 90, 819–831 (1988).
Rogers, S. L. & Fay, N. Stick or switch: A selection heuristic predicts when people take the perspective of others or communicate egocentrically. PLoS ONE 11, e0159570 (2016).
McElreath, R. et al. Applying evolutionary models to the laboratory study of social learning. Evol. Hum. Behav. 26, 483–508 (2005).
Kendal, R. L. et al. Social learning strategies: Bridge-building between fields. Trends Cogn. Sci. 22, 651–665 (2018).
Laland, K. N. Social learning strategies. Anim. Learn. Behav. 32, 4–14 (2004).
Chudek, M., Heller, S., Birch, S. & Henrich, J. Prestige-biased cultural learning: Bystander’s differential attention to potential models influences children’s learning. Evol. Hum. Behav. 33, 46–56 (2012).
Atkisson, C., O’Brien, M. J. & Mesoudi, A. Adult learners in a novel environment use prestige-biased social learning. Evol. Psychol. 10, 147470491201000320 (2012).
Haun, D. B. M., Rekers, Y. & Tomasello, M. Majority-biased transmission in chimpanzees and human children, but not orangutans. Curr. Biol. 22, 727–731 (2012).
Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Fay, N. & Gignac, G. E. Science by social media: Attitudes towards climate change are mediated by perceived social consensus. Mem. Cognit. 47, 1445–1456 (2019).
van den Berg, P., Molleman, L. & Weissing, F. J. Focus on the success of others leads to selfish behavior. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 112, 2912–2917 (2015).
Chudek, M., Baron, A. S. & Birch, S. Unselective overimitators: The evolutionary implications of children’s indiscriminate copying of successful and prestigious models. Child Dev. 87, 782–794 (2016).
Tamariz, M. Replication and emergence in cultural transmission. Phys. Life Rev. 30, 47–71 (2019).
Tamariz, M., Ellison, T. M., Barr, D. J. & Fay, N. Cultural selection drives the evolution of human communication systems. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 281, 20140488 (2014).
Rendell, L. et al. Why copy others? Insights from the social learning strategies tournament. Science 328, 208–213 (2010).
Schlag, K. H. Why imitate, and if so, how?: A boundedly rational approach to multi-armed bandits. J. Econ. Theory 78, 130–156 (1998).
Fay, N., Garrod, S., Roberts, L. & Swoboda, N. The interactive evolution of human communication systems. Cogn. Sci. 34, 351–386 (2010).
Segovia-Martín, J., Walker, B., Fay, N. & Tamariz, M. Network connectivity dynamics, cognitive biases, and the evolution of cultural diversity in round-robin interactive micro-societies. Cogn. Sci. 44, e12852 (2020).
Barr, D. J. Establishing conventional communication systems: Is common knowledge necessary?. Cogn. Sci. 28, 937–962 (2004).
Simpson, E. H. Measurement of diversity. Nature 163, 688 (1949).
Acerbi, A., Jacquet, P. O. & Tennie, C. Behavioral constraints and the evolution of faithful social learning. Curr. Zool. 58, 307 (2012).
Enquist, M., Strimling, P., Eriksson, K., Laland, K. & Sjostrand, J. One cultural parent makes no culture. Anim. Behav. 79, 1353–1362 (2010).
Kandler, A. & Laland, K. N. An investigation of the relationship between innovation and cultural diversity. Theor. Popul. Biol. 76, 59–67 (2009).
Henrich, J. Demography and cultural evolution: How adaptive cultural processes can produce maladaptive losses: The Tasmanian case. Am. Antiq. 69, 197–214 (2004).
Kobayashi, Y. & Wakano, J. Y. Evolution of social versus individual learning in an infinite island model. Evolution 66, 1624–1635 (2012).
Schlag, K. H. Which one should I imitate?. J. Math. Econ. 31, 493–522 (1999).
Yaniv, I. Receiving other people’s advice: Influence and benefit. Organ. Behav. Hum. Decis. Process. 93, 1–13 (2004).
Harvey, N. & Harries, C. Effects of judges’ forecasting on their later combination of forecasts for the same outcomes. Int. J. Forecast. 20, 391–409 (2004).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99340-7
