Pre-rolls, those familiar cannabis staples enjoyed by enthusiasts and novices alike, have experienced a remarkable evolution within cannabis culture. From their humble beginnings as hand-rolled joints ...

However, in cultural evolution, similarity can reflect the horizontal transmission of acquired traits. Moreover, horizontal transfer is ubiquitous in culture; it is present whenever people share ideas ...

Think of evolution, and you might think of Darwin's finches and natural selection. But according to researchers writing in the journal BioScience, it is not our genes that are determining our current ...

"This book arose proximally out of a session at the Human Behaviour and Evolution Society annual meeting that was held at University College London in 2001"--Preface. STRI copy purchased with funds ...

Recent investigations into primate behaviour have underscored the importance of cultural evolution — the process by which behaviours and skills are socially transmitted and refined over successive ...

As the 50th year of hip-hop comes to a close, the AFRO salutes the pioneers of hip-hop and those who have sustained the genre for 50 years and those who carry it into the future. Started on Aug. 11, ...

In the heart of Tallinn, where history weaves through cobblestone streets and ancient towers, stands the Ungern-Sternberg Palace — a monument that bridges the opulent past of Estonia's aristocracy ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. “Evolution of a Sonero” is a one-man show ...

In Part One of this series, we saw that culture doesn't suffer from the problem that Darwin's theory of natural selection successfully solved: the problem of how change accumulates in biological ...