Human communication systems, such as language, evolve culturally [Chater et al. 2009; Croft 2000]; their components undergo reproduction and variation. However, a role for selection in cultural evolutionary dynamics is less clear. Often neutral evolution (also known as 'drift') models, are used to explain the evolution of human communication systems [Blythe 2012; Nettle 1999; Reali and Griffith...

Digital fabrication devices exploit basic technologies in order to create tangible reproductions of 3D digital models. Although current 3D printing pipelines still suffer from several restrictions, accuracy in reproduction has reached an excellent level. The manufacturing industry has been the main domain of 3D printing applications over the last decade. Digital fabrication techniques have also...

When Walter Benjamin wrote his famous essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, he shone a light on the cultural changes inherent in technology’s ability to infinitely reproduce and distribute art. One of the important consequences of this development was the democratization of art’s availability, allowing the general population to experience artwork that they would otherwise...

Social and environmental justice organisations have silenced discourse on human overpopulation due to fear of any association with reproductive coercion, but in doing so they failed acknowledge the oppressive role pronatalism undermining autonomy. Pronatalism, which comprises cultural institutional forces that compel reproduction, is far more widespread, as damaging individual liberties attempt...

in current societies because of development of technology and information also ever increasing of variety of services and goods and… makes a vast difference in current and last generation's experience and decrease of reproduction of social values in new society. the aim of this study is to consider the difference of life style dimentions in mothers and daughters in yazd and then consider i...

This study aims to reveal the phenomenon of cultural reproduction in local politics Bone Regency. Cultural question is maintenance traditional patterns carried out by aristocrats amid current socio-political changes that occur. research descriptive using qualitative methodology. Data collection techniques were through observation, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and literature revi...

In recent years, laboratory studies of cultural evolution have become increasingly prevalent as a means of identifying and understanding the effects of cultural transmission on the form and functionality of transmitted material. The datasets generated by these studies may provide insights into the conditions encouraging, or inhibiting, high rates of innovation, as well as the effect that this h...