Theory for cultural evolution

Jansson, F., Aguilar, E., Acerbi, A., & Enquist, M. (2021). Modelling cultural systems and selective filters. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B   PDF
 
Smolla, M., Jansson, F., Lehmann, L., Houkes, W., Weissing, F. J., Hammerstein, P., ... & Enquist, M. (2021). Underappreciated features of cultural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B   PDF
 
Buskell, A., Enquist, M., & Jansson, F. (2019). A systems approach to cultural evolution. Palgrave Communications   PDF
 
Lind, J., Ghirlanda, S., & Enquist, M. (2019). Social learning through associative processes: a computational theory. Royal Society Open Science    PDF
 
Acerbi, A., Ghirlanda, S., & Enquist, M. (2014). Regulatory traits: cultural influences on cultural evolution. Evolution, complexity and artificial life   PDF
 
Lind, J., Lindenfors, P., Ghirlanda, S., Lidén, K., & Enquist, M. (2013). Dating human cultural capacity using phylogenetic principles. Scientific reports   PDF
 
Acerbi, A., Ghirlanda, S., & Enquist, M. (2012). Old and young individuals' role in cultural change.    PDF
 
Acerbi, A., Ghirlanda, S., & Enquist, M. (2012). The logic of fashion cycles. PloS One  PDF
 
Acerbi, A., Ghirlanda, S., & Enquist, M. (2012). Regulatory Traits in Cultural Evolution. In WIVACE 2012, Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Evolution and Complexity      PDF
 
Lindenfors, P., Lind, J., & Enquist, M. (2012). Det unikt mänskliga.    PDF
 
Rendell, L., Boyd, R., Enquist, M., Feldman, M. W., Fogarty, L., & Laland, K. N. (2011). How copying affects the amount, evenness and persistence of cultural knowledge: insights from the social learning strategies tournament. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B      PDF
 
Enquist, M., Ghirlanda, S., & Eriksson, K. (2011). Modelling the evolution and diversity of cumulative culture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B        PDF
 
Enquist, M., Ghirlanda, S., Jarrick, A. & Wachtmeister C-A. 2008. Why does human culture increase exponentially? Theoretical Population Biology     PDF
 
Enquist, M., Strimling, P., Eriksson, K., Laland, K., & Sjostrand, J. (2010). One cultural parent makes no culture. Animal Behaviour    PDF
 
Ghirlanda, S., Enquist, M., & Perc, M. (2010). Sustainability of culture-driven population dynamics. Theoretical population biology  PDF
 
Rendell, L., Boyd, R., Cownden, D., Enquist, M., Eriksson, K., Feldman, M. W., ... & Laland, K. N. (2010). Why copy others? Insights from the social learning strategies tournament. Science   PDF
 

Strimling, P., Sjöstrand, J., Enquist, M., & Eriksson, K. (2009). Accumulation of independent cultural traits. Theoretical population biology    PDF

Strimling, P., Enquist, M., & Eriksson, K. (2009). Repeated learning makes cultural evolution unique. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences    PDF.
 
Acerbi, A., Enquist, M., & Ghirlanda, S. (2009). Cultural evolution and individual development of openness and conservatism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences    PDF
 
Enquist, M., Ghirlanda, S., Jarrick, A., & Wachtmeister, C. A. (2008). Why does human culture increase exponentially?. Theoretical population biology    PDF
 

Enquist, M. &  Ghirlanda, S. (2007). Evolution of imitation does not explain the origin of human cumulative culture. J. Theor. Biol.     PDF

Enquist, M., Eriksson, K & Ghirlanda, S. (2007). Critical social learning: A solution to Roger's paradox.  American  Anthropologist    PDF

Eriksson, K., Enquist, M., & Ghirlanda, S. (2007). Critical points in current theory of conformist social learning. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology    PDF

Ghirlanda, S. & Enquist, M. (2007).Cumulative culture and demographic transitions. Quality and Quantity     PDF

Ghirlanda S. & Enquist M. & Nakamura, M. (2006). Cultural Evolution Develops its own Rules: the Rise of Conservatism and Persuasion. Current Anthropology     PDF

 

The human evolutionary transition (the origin of human culture) and differences between humans and other animals

Enquist, M., Ghirlanda, S., & Lind, J. (2023). The Human Evolutionary Transition: From Animal Intelligence to Culture. Princeton University Press.

Ghirlanda, S., Lind, J., & Enquist, M. (2017). Memory for stimulus sequences: a divide between humans and other animals?. Royal Society open science    PDF

Lind, J., Lönnberg, S., Persson, T., & Enquist, M. (2017). Time does not help orangutans Pongo abelii solve physical problems. Frontiers in Psychology    PDF
 
Lind, J., Enquist, M., & Ghirlanda, S. (2015). Animal memory: A review of delayed matching-to-sample data. Behavioural processes    PDF
 
Kolk, M., Cownden, D., & Enquist, M. (2014). Correlations in fertility across generations: can low fertility persist?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences    PDF
 
Ghirlanda, S., Enquist, M., & Lind, J. (2014). Coevolution of intelligence, behavioral repertoire, and lifespan. Theoretical population biology    PDF