Fernández López de Pablo, Javier, Romano, Valéria, Derex, Maxime, Gjesfjeld, Erik, Gravel-Miguel, Claudine, Hamilton, Marcus J., Migliano, Andrea Bamberg, Riede, Felix and Lozano, Sergi (2022) Understanding hunter–gatherer cultural evolution needs network thinking. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 37 (n° 8). pp. 632-636.

Abstract

Hunter–gatherers past and present live in complex societies, and the structure of these can be assessed using social networks. We outline how the integration of new evidence from cultural evolution experiments, computer simulations, ethnography, and archaeology open new research horizons to understand the role of social networks in cultural evolution.