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Maxime Derex

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CNRS Researcher at IAST and Toulouse School of Economics Working on cumulative culture, social learning, innovation

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Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social · 23h
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CES Election Voting Deadline Extended! We’re extending the voting period for the 2026 CES officer elections! Voting now closes: 2nd October 2026 23:59 PDT If you haven’t voted yet, there’s still time to have your say and help shape the future of CES.
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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please share widely, especially to researchers in disaster and war zones. Proud to launch the 2nd round of the Max Planck mentoring program for researchers (including students) at risk due to natural disaster or war. Deadline 18 October. www.maxminds.mpg.de/3630/apply
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ACE Research Grant Alert 🚨! CES will give out two awards of up to $3000 each to support early career research projects in cultural evolution. The award is open to applicants worldwide, with an application deadline of October 9th 2026, 9:00 AM AoE. Applications: forms.gle/dsLdKQuNBH4W...
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ACE Early Career Research Grants
CES will give out two awards of up to $3000 each to support research projects in cultural evolution. To learn more about the Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) initiative, see here. Deadline: Appli...
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Gaia Molinaro @gaiamolinaro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Why do some goals spread across people and generations, while others emerge only transiently? We argue that human goals are both drivers and products of cultural evolution: our individual pursuits are shaped by our cultural environments, and the goals we pursue in turn reshape those environments.
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Levin Brinkmann @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We worry about homogenisation, but can AI also expand human culture? In a multi-generational experiment we demonstrate AI-induced cultural shifts. Machines lastingly shift human behavior, beyond their presence, just as AlphaGo did to Go. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Propagation and preservation of AI-discovered problem-solving strategies in human culture - Nature Communications
AI can uncover problem-solving strategies beyond human discovery. Here, the authors show that AI-discovered strategies propagate and persist in human populations, producing cultural shifts when non-tr...
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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🚨 CES Elections 2026–2029 🚨 We’ve extended the nomination period for SIX Executive Committee positions: President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, 2x Executive Ordinary Members and Student Rep! 🗓 Nominations close: Jun14 🗳 Voting: Jun24–Jul8 📢 Results announced this summer forms.gle/9yX2SLcf82Vk...
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Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2026: Nomination Form
Please use this form to submit your nomination(s) for the Executive Committee's open positions. On this page we will ask you for general details. The next pages allow you to choose the position(s) ...
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Olivier Morin @oliviermorin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
CALL: a PhD grant (3 years) to do a PhD with me at @cognitionens.bsky.social on the evolution of graphic codes. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213
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PhD student grant (3 years) on the evolution of written communication
My team recruits a PhD student to work under the supervision of Olivier Morin on the evolution of written communication, within a project jointly led by Olivier Morin, Hugo Mercier, and Marc Allassonn...
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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏
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Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution
Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution posted on March 2, 2026 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual...
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026
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Open Rank Faculty Cluster Hire Search for the New Department of Cognitive Science at Bocconi - Bocconi University
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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🚨Job alert!🚨 The Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS announces 2 junior Professor (W1) positions: A W1 Tenure track Professorship in Evolutionary Modelling (shorturl.at/FN102) and a W1 Professorship (non Tenure-track) in Primatology (shorturl.at/sH0Mk) Deadline: April 6 2026! Please share! 🔄
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Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🚨 The application deadline has been extended to 27 Feb 2026. Apply at this link: forms.gle/wbUG5WfTRSvh...
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Marijn Keijzer @mrnkzr.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Travel grants 📣 For the 13th Toulouse Economics & Biology Workshop (June 1–2, 2026, @IAST) we have travel fellowships for PhDs & early-career researchers presenting a poster. Apply by Feb 27! Details: www.iast.fr/conferences/...
Poster of 13th Econ and Bio workshop on 'social influence and it's macro consequences'
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Apply at this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 14/11/2025
Come and do a PhD at Exeter with me and Chico Camargo (Computer Science) on human-genAI coevolution "Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Data-Driven Agent-Based Modelling of Online Cultural Dynamics" www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/recr... More details here: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Postdoc position in individual-level incentives, social learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz files.newsletter2go.com/l3slzozn/s_i...
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Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🚨Only 2 days left to apply
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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share!
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Benjamin Pitt @benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I’ll be considering graduate school applications for Fall 2026 – positions are fully funded, typically for 5 years. Deadline to apply to the Cognition program is December 1. Come do science with me in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...
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PhD in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience : College of Natural Sciences : UMass Amherst
Engage in research centered on fundamental theoretical questions about cognitive function using multiple experimental methods and data analysis.
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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France. Deadline: November 15, 2025. www.iast.fr/research-fel...
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Research Fellowships
Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...
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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... Apply by Nov 12! Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏
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ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution
ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution posted on October 16, 2025 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual for a ful...
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone? Our new preprint, led by @anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...
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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go! 400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society
Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli
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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Fees and Funding - Durham University
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Thrilled that our paper on the mechanisms underlying social learning strategies is out! First big paper from my @erc.europa.eu & @kawresearch.bsky.social funded group. More to come! I'm currently looking to recruit two post docs, get in touch if you find this line of research interesting.
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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🚨 New preprint 🚨 Experimental Evidence for the Propagation and Preservation of Machine Discoveries in Human Populations arxiv.org/abs/2506.17741 with team members @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social @thomasfmueller.bsky.social Ann-Marie Nussberger, @maximederex.bsky.social, Sara Bonati, Valerii Chirkov
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Seeking Behavioral Science PhDs @cuboulderibs.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @nathumbehav.nature.com @maximederex.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 05/06/2025
Join us on the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social executive committee! Shape the field of cultural evolution alongside amazing colleagues @maximederex.bsky.social, @nicolewen.bsky.social, @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @ferylbadiani.bsky.social & incoming President Fiona Jordan
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
OECS thematic collections.
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 27/05/2025
3 days left until the deadline for these @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social grants
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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Do you teach a course on cultural evolution? The @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social is offering Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... $4000 award. Apply for up to 3 courses. Less than 30min per course submission.
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
10 days left to apply for our CES awards for Outreach, ECR grants or for building capacity
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
📢 CES launches Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) Course Design Awards! 🎉 $4000 award + global impact for your cultural evolution course materials. Course must be college/grad level with 10+ hrs content. Application link: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #CulturalEvolution #Education #Grants
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The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Don't forget to put in your application for our 2025 awards!
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Nori Jacoby @norijacoby.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
We are recruiting two postdoctoral scholars for a research project in human collective intelligence and creativity at UC Davis and Cornell. Joint project with @enfascination.com, @norijacoby.bsky.social, @oferon.bsky.social & Dalton Conley. Please forward this thread to relevant people. 1/n
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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🚨 New preprint! 🚨 I looked at 400+ years of cumulative cultural evolution in the Game of Go from feudalism to superhuman AI. Did AlphaGo etc. completely disrupt human play? No! More like human-machine convergence, rather than revolution. Check out these decision trees! osf.io/preprints/ps...
decision trees in human play in the game of go before and after the arrival of superhuman AI, showing gradual change rather than revolutionary disruption
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The 2025 Cultural Evolution Society awards are now open for applications! -Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ... -ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN... -Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...
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ACE Outreach Awards
CES will give out two awards of up to $2500 each to support activities that translate cultural evolution research for a non-academic audience or for students outside of the field of cultural evolution...
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Fully-funded PhD position on the cultural evolution of environmental management! Link evolution, ecology and behavioral science in the ACE Lab timwaring.info Details: forms.gle/gZWK9BpwYfoG... @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @alexmesoudi.com @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com
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ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory
culture, evolution, cooperation, and sustainability
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Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Have you ever heard of a travois—one of the simplest prehistoric vehicles, made of two long poles attached in a V-shape? Turns out it’s way older than we thought! www.newscientist.com/article/2469...
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22,000-year-old tracks are earliest evidence of transport vehicles
Tracks and footprints found in New Mexico are by far the earliest evidence of people using primitive vehicles to transport things
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Simon Kirby @simonkirby.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
A picture of a humpback whale just below the sea surface taken by Marc Quintin
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
💥Postdoc Opening! 💥We (@lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Piet van den Berg) seek a postdoc to study social learning and cultural evolution. We are looking for someone with math/computational modeling skills & interest in human behavior. Get in touch if you have any questions! shorturl.at/W6Qsb
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Postdoktor i beräkningspsykologi/kognitionsvetenskap med fokus på social inlärning och kulturell evolution
Vill du bidra till medicinsk forskning av toppkvalitet? Gruppen Mechanisms of Social Behavior vid Karolinska Institutet i Stockholm söker en högt kvalificerad postdoktoral forskare för att ingå i
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Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
New paper in #ProcB with @alexmesoudi.com, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social and Rob Boyd. We investigate how social learning shapes the way we explore and show that it can even preserve useless theories! 🧵👇
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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
New preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? Together with @danielredhead.bsky.social, we explore how two types of knowledge are shared in a BaYaka community: long-term foraging skills and short-term information about food locations
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Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Exhaustive list of ways to congratulate a colleague on a new paper: 1️⃣ Congrats on your paper! 2️⃣ "Congrats" on your paper. 3️⃣ Congrats on "your" paper. 4️⃣ Congrats on your "paper".
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Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture
Although cumulative culture is a hallmark of hominin evolution, its origins can be traced back to our common ancestor with chimpanzees. Here, we investigated the evolutionary origins of chimpanzee cum...
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