Cognitive appeal promotes the persistence of inefficient solutions and hinders cumulative cultural evolution

Socially guided individual learning mitigates the double-edge sword of pedagogy

Propagation and preservation of AI-discovered problem-solving strategies in human culture

The roles of cultural transmission and causal reasoning in the cultural evolution of technology

Cumulative culture

The cultural evolution of human goals

Social learning preserves both useful and useless theories by canalizing learners’ exploration

Studying long-term evolutionary processes over short timescales: Methods in cumulative cultural evolution

When LLMs play the telephone game: cultural attractors as conceptual tools to evaluate LLMs in multi-turn settings

Do institutions evolve like material technologies?

Network connectivity and repeated interactions in an information sharing dilemma

Trade-offs, control conditions, and alternative designs in the experimental study of cultural evolution

The cultural transmission of technological skills

Machine culture

Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena

Understanding hunter–gatherer cultural evolution needs network thinking

Beyond social learning

Cumulative cultural evolution within evolving population structures

Technical reasoning alone does not take humans this far

Convergence of knowledge in a stochastic cultural evolution model with population structure, social learning and credibility biases

Competition for novelty reduces information sampling in a research game-a registered report

Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology

Divide and conquer: intermediate levels of population fragmentation maximize cultural accumulation

Social information can potentiate understanding despite inhibiting cognitive effort

Cumulative improvements in iterated problem solving

Partial connectivity increases cultural accumulation within groups

Understanding cumulative cultural evolution

Social learning and the replication process: an experimental investigation

The foundations of the human cultural niche

How does competition affect the transmission of information?

Group size and cultural complexity (Derex et al. reply)

Social learners require process information to outperform individual learners

Experimental evidence for the influence of group size on cultural complexity

Support for a role of colour vision in mate choice in the nocturnal European treefrog (Hyla arborea)