The present study explores the contents and functions of inspirational memes addressing happiness in two cultural contexts, Finnish Italian. Inspirational are understood as a mode present-day folk wisdom conveying advice that can be easily memorized, shared applied everyday life. material consists 709 collected from Instagram Facebook 2019 (N=353 Finnish; N=356 Italian). theoretical background ...

There is a perceived dichotomy between evolutionary explanations for behaviour and social or cultural ones. In this essay, I attempt to dissolve this dichotomy by pointing out that organisms are susceptible to social or cultural influence because they have evolved mechanisms that make them so. I review two classes of evolutionary explanation for cultural variation, ‘evoked’ and ‘transmitted’ cu...

In classiication problems such as writer, face, nger print or speaker identiication, the number of classes is very large or unspeciied. To establish the inherent distinctness of the classes, i.e., validate individuality, we transform the many class problem into a dichotomy by using a \distance" between two samples of the same class and those of two diierent classes. A measure of conndence is as...

Investigation of baroclinic tides in the northern South China Sea