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Population size predicts technological complexity in Oceania by Kline, Michelle A., Boyd, Robert

“…Much human adaptation depends on the gradual accumulation of culturally transmitted knowledge and technology. Recent models of this process predict that large,…”
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How to learn about teaching: An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching behavior in humans and other animals by Kline, Michelle Ann

“…The human species is more reliant on cultural adaptation than any other species, but it is unclear how observational learning can give rise to the faithful…”
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Teaching and the Life History of Cultural Transmission in Fijian Villages by Kline, Michelle A., Boyd, Robert, Henrich, Joseph

“…Much existing literature in anthropology suggests that teaching is rare in non-Western societies, and that cultural transmission is mostly vertical…”
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Convergence of speech rate in conversation predicts cooperation by Manson, Joseph H, Bryant, Gregory A, Gervais, Matthew M, Kline, Michelle A

“…Abstract During conversation, interlocutors coordinate their behavior on many levels. Two distinct forms of behavioral coordination have been empirically…”
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Effective climate change adaptation means supporting community autonomy by Pisor, Anne C., Basurto, Xavier, Douglass, Kristina G., Mach, Katharine J., Ready, Elspeth, Tylianakis, Jason M., Hazel, Ashley, Kline, Michelle A., Kramer, Karen L., Lansing, J. Stephen, Moritz, Mark, Smaldino, Paul E., Thornton, Thomas F., Jones, James Holland

“…Communities want to determine their own climate change adaptation strategies, and scientists and decision-makers should listen to them — both the equity and…”
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Dynamics of behavior change in the COVID world by Moya, Cristina, Cruz y Celis Peniche, Patricio, Kline, Michelle A., Smaldino, Paul E.

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A multilevel evolutionary framework for sustainability analysis by Waring, Timothy M., Kline Ann, Michelle, Brooks, Jeremy S., Goff, Sandra H., Gowdy, John, Janssen, Marco A., Smaldino, Paul E., Jacquet, Jennifer

“…Sustainability theory can help achieve desirable social-ecological states by generalizing lessons across contexts and improving the design of sustainability…”
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Much to learn about teaching: Reconciling form, function, phylogeny, and development by Kline, Michelle Ann

“…The collection of commentaries expands an already extensive field of research on teaching, and contributes new questions, techniques, and strengths to the…”
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Irrelevant‐action imitation is short‐term and contextual: Evidence from two under‐studied populations by Kline, Michelle A., Gervais, Matthew M., Moya, Cristina, Boyd, Robert T.

“…Across the lifespan and across populations, humans ‘overimitate’ causally unnecessary behaviors. Such irrelevant‐action imitation facilitates faithful cultural…”
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Out of the empirical box: A mixed-methods study of tool innovation among Congolese BaYaka forager and Bondongo fisher–farmer children by Lew-Levy, Sheina, Pope, Sarah M., Haun, Daniel B.M., Kline, Michelle A., Broesch, Tanya

“…•Pipe cleaner play did not improve BaYaka and Bondongo children’s hook task success.•Children innovated novel uses for pipe cleaners outside the experimental…”
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Opportunities for Interaction: Natural Observations of Children’s Social Behavior in Five Societies by Broesch, Tanya, Carolan, Patrick L., Cebioğlu, Senay, von Rueden, Chris, Boyette, Adam, Moya, Cristina, Hewlett, Barry, Kline, Michelle A.

“…We examine the opportunities children have for interacting with others and the extent to which they are the focus of others’ visual attention in five societies…”
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Evaluation of acoustic-thermal simulations of in vivo magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound ablative therapy by Richards, Nicholas, Christensen, Douglas, Hillyard, Joshua, Kline, Michelle, Johnson, Sara, Odéen, Henrik, Payne, Allison

“…To evaluate numerical simulations of focused ultrasound (FUS) with a rabbit model, comparing simulated heating characteristics with magnetic resonance…”
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Variation is the universal: making cultural evolution work in developmental psychology by Kline, Michelle Ann, Shamsudheen, Rubeena, Broesch, Tanya

“…Culture is a human universal, yet it is a source of variation in human psychology, behaviour and development. Developmental researchers are now expanding the…”
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The Life History of Learning Subsistence Skills among Hadza and BaYaka Foragers from Tanzania and the Republic of Congo by Lew-Levy, Sheina, Ringen, Erik J., Crittenden, Alyssa N., Mabulla, Ibrahim A., Broesch, Tanya, Kline, Michelle A.

“…Aspects of human life history and cognition, such as our long childhoods and extensive use of teaching, theoretically evolved to facilitate the acquisition of…”
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Designing cultural multilevel selection research for sustainability science by Kline, Michelle A., Waring, Timothy M., Salerno, Jonathan

“…Humans stand out among animals in that we cooperate in large groups to exploit natural resources, and accumulate resource exploitation techniques across…”
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Subclinical primary psychopathy, but not physical formidability or attractiveness, predicts conversational dominance in a zero-acquaintance situation by Manson, Joseph H, Gervais, Matthew M, Fessler, Daniel M T, Kline, Michelle A

“…The determinants of conversational dominance are not well understood. We used videotaped triadic interactions among unacquainted same-sex American college…”
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Defectors cannot be detected during"small talk" with strangers by Manson, Joseph H, Gervais, Matthew M, Kline, Michelle A

“…To account for the widespread human tendency to cooperate in one-shot social dilemmas, some theorists have proposed that cooperators can be reliably detected…”
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The strategy of psychopathy: primary psychopathic traits predict defection on low-value relationships by Gervais, Matthew M., Kline, Michelle, Ludmer, Mara, George, Rachel, Manson, Joseph H.

“…Recent evidence suggests that psychopathy is a trait continuum. This has unappreciated implications for understanding the selective advantage of psychopathic…”
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Understanding cumulative cultural evolution by Henrich, Joseph, Boyd, Robert, Derex, Maxime, Kline, Michelle A., Mesoudi, Alex, Muthukrishna, Michael, Powell, Adam T., Shennan, Stephen J., Thomas, Mark G.

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Choice of cyclodextrin for cellular cholesterol depletion for vascular endothelial cell lipid raft studies: cell membrane alterations, cytoskeletal reorganization and cytotoxicity by Hinzey, Adam H, Kline, Michelle A, Kotha, Sainath R, Sliman, Sean M, Butler, Elizabeth S O'Connor, Shelton, Andrew B, Gurney, Travis R, Parinandi, Narasimham L

“…The use of cyclodextrins as tools to establish the role of cholesterol rafts in cellular functions has become a widely accepted procedure. However, the adverse…”
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