Understanding hunter–gatherer cultural evolution needs network thinking

Abstract

Hunter–gatherers past and present live in complex societies, and the structure of these can be assessed using social networks. We outline how the integration of new evidence from cultural evolution experiments, computer simulations, ethnography, and archaeology open new research horizons to understand the role of social networks in cultural evolution.

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Javier Fernández-López de Pablo, Valéria Romano, Maxime Derex, Erik Gjesfjeld, Claudine Gravel-Miguel, Marcus J. Hamilton, Andrea Bamberg Migliano, Felix Riede, and Sergi Lozano, “Understanding hunter–gatherer cultural evolution needs network thinking”, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 37, n. 8, August 2022, pp. 632–636.