"This book arose proximally out of a session at the Human Behaviour and Evolution Society annual meeting that was held at University College London in 2001"--Preface. STRI copy purchased with funds ...

Think of evolution, and you might think of Darwin's finches and natural selection. But according to researchers writing in the journal BioScience, it is not our genes that are determining our current ...

This post is in response to How Culture Makes Us Smarter By Steve Stewart-Williams Ph.D. Are we big-brained mammals who have out-evolved ourselves? 'The evidence for the hypothesis that cultural ...

Scientists at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and the University of Bordeaux in France report that human cultural know-how grew through a long, measured shift from casual ...

Cumulative culture is a remarkable phenomenon: it refers to a species’ ability to build up knowledge and skills over time, with ideas and practices becoming more complex and refined from one ...

Culture grows from a simple state to a complex system. Source: Robert Atkinson Culture is like an organism that grows from a simple state to a complex system. A holistic view shows that the evolution ...

The history of art has long been underpinned and shaped by acts of generosity. From the grand patrons of Europe to the visionaries who built America’s great museum collections, supporting the arts has ...