Black Twitter reshaped how we watch TV together through memes, jokes, and real-time reactions. Professor Sherri Williams ...

Evolution has been a cornerstone of the biological sciences for the better part of a century. Rarely, however, has evolutionary science been considered valuable in understanding contemporary human ...

Are cultural evolution rates similar across human societies? The emerging field of Cliodynamics uses mathematical models to study history. The complexity characteristics are polity population ...

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 ...

Thus, as do biological organisms, elements of culture evolve (Figure 1). Figure 1. Cultural evolution of a pot used for tea, from simple container to container with handle to container with both ...

A Baghdad caliph receives a nighttime visitation from Aristotle. The cultural cross-pollination at the heart of Martin Puchner’s erudite but wonderfully accessible new book “Culture ...