Praise for John Odling-Smee's new book: “Readers will discover that niches are far more than just comfortable places to live. Odling-Smee describes niche construction as an essential feature of evolution and expands the concept to the origin of life on Earth.” David Deamer @mitpress.bsky.social
Computer tournament explains why cumulative cultural evolution is rare in nature when social learning is common. Complex culture favors conformity, blind imitation and hyper-credulity. Great to see the findings of the Second Social Learning Strategies Tournament published. See rb.gy/055cha
New paper shows that human social learning is more flexible than previously believed, with humans able to integrate social information from other people adaptively, even when those others have different preferences, skills, or goals. See www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2404928121
Scott Gilbert: I’m thrilled to have our new book published. It brings together evolution, development, and ecology in ways that could not have been imagined in the last century. 'Evolution Evolving' will be published by @princetonupress.bsky.socialevolutionevolving.org
Kevin Lala: After 10 years of hard work, I am thrilled to have in my hands the very first copy of my new book "Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity" !! The book will be published in just over a week by @princetonupress.bsky.socialevolutionevolving.org
Sustainability & niche construction Interesting paper "expands on existing analyses of corporate energy and sustainability communication and shows the potential of evolutionary theory to study and conceptualize sustainable corporate communication as niche construction". See tinyurl.com/4dr9dfnw
Just 10 days until Kevin Lala et al's ‘Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity’ will be published by @princetonupress.bsky.socialevolutionevolving.org#evolution#biology#books
What a meeting! Thanks all for attending and show-casing the best in cultural evolution research
Kevin Lala et al's ‘Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity’ will be published by @princetonupress.bsky.socialevolutionevolving.org#evolution#biology#books
