Latest news on our research
30/03/10
We are taking part in the Royal Society 2010 Summer Science Exhibition. The websites for the exhibition, and our exhbit ('Culture Evolves!'), are now live at:
http://www.cultureevolves.org
http://seefurtherfestival.org
1/10/09
Cristina Matthews has started work on our current project, taking over from Cara Evans.
1/09/09
Congratulations to Ailsa Millen and Cara Evans, both recent lab members. Ailsa has been accepted to study for a PhD at the University of Portsmouth and Cara has been accepted to study for a PhD at UCL.
19/08/09
Our article, 'Conservatism in Laboratory Microsocieties: Unpredictable Payoffs Accentuate Group-Specific Traditions' has been accepted for publication in Evolution and Human Behavior.
21/07/09
Our funders, the ESRC, have reviewed the final report for our project, 'Testing Hypotheses about Cumulative Cultural Evolution' (RES-061-23-0072), and have given it their highest grade of 'Outstanding'.
26/05/09
Our article, 'Social learning mechanisms and cumulative cultural evolution: is imitation necessary?', has been accepted for publication in Psychological Science.
23/03/09
Our new project, 'An Experimental Approach to Studying Cultural Variation and Convergence' has started, and Kerstin Schillinger and Cara Evans have been appointed as research assistants.
23/01/09
Congratulations to Claire Watson, whose paper Understanding Behavioral Traditions in Primates: Are Current Experimental Approaches Too Focused on Food? has been published in American Journal of Primatology.
12/11/08
Our article, Studying cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory, was published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
20/11/08
Our work was discussed in a Russian magazine article Сила плагиата.
20/10/08
We have been awarded a new research grant by the ESRC. Our topic is 'An Experimental Approach to Studying Cultural Variation and Convergence' (RES-062-23-1634) and the project will start in 2009.
15/04/08
Our article, Experimental models for testing hypotheses about cumulative cultural evolution, was published in the journal Evolution and Human Behaviour.