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Digital Culture

The diffusion of digital technologies triggered a radical departure from previous modalities of cultural transmission but, at the same time, general characteristics of human cultural evolution and cognition influence these developments. This chapter …

Cultural Accumulation and Improvement in Online Fan Fiction

We analyse stories in Harry Potter fan fiction published on Archive of Our Own (AO3), using concepts from cultural evolution. In particular, we focus on cumulative cultural evolution, that is, the idea that cultural systems improve with time, drawing …

Regulatory traits: Cultural Influences on Cultural Evolution

We use the term *regulatory traits* to indicate traits that both regulate cultural transmission (e.g., from whom to learn) and are themselves culturally transmitted. In the first part of this contribution we study the dynamics of some of these traits …

Naturalmente differenti. Spiegazioni naturalistiche e variabilità culturale

Le trasmissioni della cultura

Antropologia cognitiva e modularità della mente: il caso della folkbiology

Esiste una folkanthropology? E, se esiste, a chi interessa?