Charles Perreault

TL;DR: It is shown that cultural evolution is faster than biological evolution; this effect holds true even when the generation time of species is controlled for; and culture allows us to evolve over short time scales, which are normally accessible only to short-lived species, while at the same time allowing for us to enjoy the benefits of having a long life history.

TL;DR: A Bayesian model in which both individual and social learning arise from a single inferential process is presented, indicating that natural selection favors individuals who place heavy weight on social cues when the environment changes slowly or when its state cannot be well predicted using nonsocial cues.

TL;DR: The long-term occupation of BKC by Denisovans suggests that they may have adapted to life at high altitudes and may have contributed such adaptations to modern humans on the Tibetan Plateau.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined procedural units as mutually exclusive manufacturing steps that make a distinct contribution to the finished form of a technology, and used the procedural unit approach to measure the complexity of 13 Paleolithic assemblages.

TL;DR: It is shown that, for a given population size, there exists an intermediate level of population fragmentation that maximizes the rate of cumulative cultural evolution, and population structure needs to be taken into account when investigating the relationship between demography and cumulative culture.