Selected recent publications by our members

Stibbard-Hawkes, D N.E., Amir, D & Apicella, C.L. (2023). A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context? Evolution and Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.10.004

Boothroyd, L.G. & Cross, C.P. (2022). (Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45: e156.

Rawlings, B.S., Davis, H.E.... Lew‐Levy, S...et al.. (2023). Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13434

Sakamoto-Martini, G, Kendal, J & Tehrani, J.J. (2023). Cinderella’s Family Tree. A Phylomemetic Case Study of ATU 510/511. Fabula 64(1-2): 7-30.

Tehrani, J.J. (2023). The Cultural Transmission and Evolution of Folk Narratives. In Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Tehrani, J.J., Kendal, J. & Kendal, R. Oxford University Press.

Lew-Levy, S, van den Bos, W, Corriveau, K, Dutra, N, Flynn, E, O'Sullivan, E, Pope-Caldwell, S., Rawlings, B.S, Smolla, M, Xu, J & Wood, L (2023). Peer learning and cultural evolution. Child Development Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12482

Street, S. E., Gutiérrez, J. S., Allen, W. L., & Capellini, I. (2023). Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates. Nature Communications, 14(1), 262. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35765-6

Rawlings, B. S., van Leeuwen, E. J. C., & Davila-Ross, M. (2023). Chimpanzee communities differ in their inter- and intrasexual social relationships. Learning & Behavior. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-023-00570-8

Gettler, L. T., Redhead, D., Dzabatou, A., & Lew‐Levy, S. (2023). BaYaka forager food sharing networks in the Congo Basin: The roles of gender homophily and kin sharing. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24688

Garcia-Nisa, I., Evans, C., & Kendal, R. L. (2023). The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 1176. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26699-6

Davis, S+ Rawlings, B.S+ Clegg, J.M., Ikejimba, Watson-Jones, E., Whiten A, Legare, C.H. (2022). Cognitive flexibility supports the development of cumulative cultural learning in children. Scientific Reports, 12: 14073. + joint first authors

DeCasien, Barton & Higham (2022), Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences,
26: 432-445, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.02.003

Granito, Tehrani, Kendal, J. et al. (2022), Does Group Contact Shape Styles of Pictorial Representation? A Case Study of Australian Rock Art. Hum Nat https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-022-09430-2 

Marley, C.L., Pollard, T. M., Barton, R A. & Street, S E. (2022). A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 76(12): 158.