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Memes and suicide.

Distribution of surnames over the Alto Adige-Südtirol region according to local geographic, historical and linguistic features.

If there is nothing beyond the organic... Heredity and culture at the boundaries of anthropology in the work of Alfred L. Kroeber.

[Human origin and evolution. A review of advances in paleoanthropology, comparative genetics, and evolutionary psychology].

Darwinism and the cultural evolution of sports.

Allometry of facial mobility in anthropoid primates: implications for the evolution of facial expression.

Migration: an engine for social change.

Culture, embodiment and genes: unravelling the triple helix.

Introduction. Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour.

Review. The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution.

Review. Studying cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory.

Review. Establishing an experimental science of culture: animal social diffusion experiments.

Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution.

The fitness and functionality of culturally evolved communication systems.

Exploring gene-culture interactions: insights from handedness, sexual selection and niche-construction case studies.

Review. Theoretical and empirical evidence for the impact of inductive biases on cultural evolution.

Quasicycles in a spatial predator-prey model.

Indirect defense in a highly specific ant-plant mutualism.

The origin and evolution of religious prosociality.

The coevolution of cultural groups and ingroup favoritism.