In this era of overspecialisation, the concept of 'co-culture' presents a novel view on the complex links among species. It highlights how different animals share habits, adaptations, and knowledge, reminding us that culture is not exclusive to humans. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
My latest paper "Topological communities in complex networks" just dropped on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2409.02317@css-conference.bsky.social#networkScience#topologicalCommunities
Most complex systems can be captured by graphs or networks. Networks connect nodes (e.g.\ neurons) through edges (synapses), thus summarizing the system's structure. A popular way of interrogating...
The evolution of social behaviors and risk preferences in settings with uncertainty. New work from Guocheng Wang et al, where we study behavioral evolution when payoff observations are noisy. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A study reveals that viral evolution can undergo rapid bursts without external factors, with duplication events- and not just mutations-playing crucial roles in facilitating these innovations. #VirusEvolution#PunctuatedEvolution#Genomicsacademic.oup.com/ve/article/d...
Hi. I'm giving a keynote at the International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG'24) on September 26th inlg2024.github.io If you are in Tokyo, swing on by.
Join me next month for a two session for a 92nd Street Y Roundtable course on the cultural lives of whales and dolphins - aimed at a wide audience - lots to talk about! roundtable.org/live-courses... 🐳🦑
Roundtable is live, in-the-moment online courses with respected and passionate experts who give you a place at the table to ask questions, join a discussion, and satisfy your curious mind.
New paper on the relationship between human cultural practice, ecosystem complexity, and biodiversity. We point out that biodiversity is tied to recursive human-ecosystem relations and that human agency in the deep past often also had curative biodiversity effects: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Today's biodiversity crisis fundamentally threatens the habitability of the planet, thus ranking among the primary human challenges of our time. Much emphasis is currently placed on the loss of biodiv...
In this commentary essay of the inaugural issue of Animal History, I discuss what "animal prehistory" is, and why it must also be a critical-conceptual project; I further propose that historicity, zoo-difference, and zoo-literacy must be at the core of the project #animalsdoi.org/10.1525/ah.2...
This paper engages animal archaeologies with key debates in animal history. Animal archaeology is currently and primarily framed as a multi-species venture, and a brief review of its disciplinary gene...
Starter packs seem all the rage so here’s a cultural evolution one go.bsky.app/6mZJyQq
I'm sorry, why does this paper have only 689 citations and not ten million? www.mindmeister.com/generic_file...
