charlesefferson.bsky.social
@charlesefferson.bsky.social
Attender of meetings at the University of Lausanne. #culturalEvolution #geneCultureCoevolution #appliedCulturalEvolution #evolutionCooperation #coordination #socialNorms #humanEvolutionaryEcology
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Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Through experiments and simulations, this study shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shaping the processes involved in cultural evolution. @davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social
@lucasmolleman.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Feature-based reward learning shapes human social learning strategies - Nature Human Behaviour
This research advances a mechanistic reward learning account of social learning strategies. Through experiments and simulations, it shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shapin...
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July 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Today @schimmelpfennig.bsky.social successfully defended his outstanding thesis on cultural evolution and organizational science. Congratulations, Dr. Schimmelpfennig!
June 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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This socio-centric social network study estimates the social influence and social selection on preference for cutting female relatives using data from 5163 Ethiopian Arsi Oromo adults. @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @bristolantharch.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Social clustering of preference for female genital mutilation/cutting in south-central Ethiopia - Nature Human Behaviour
Recent estimates indicate that half of Ethiopian girls aged 15–19 years have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting (FGMC). This socio-centric social network study estimates the social influenc...
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June 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The new edition of 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour', co-authored with
@kevinlala.bsky.social , is available!

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Ebook is available on Kindle.

Thank you to Prof. Clark Barrett for the endorsement! 🧪
May 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Hello, Bluesky. I guess we're here now! New paper in EHS with Sonja Vogt. Among other activities, we replicate our original FGC results from Sudan (Efferson et al, 2015) with a new larger data set. tinyurl.com/knt2v9fr
The cover of randomness: validating implicit methods for the study of sensitive topics | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
The cover of randomness: validating implicit methods for the study of sensitive topics - Volume 7
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February 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM