Article

Derex, Maxime, Bonnefon, Jean-François, Boyd, Robert, McElreath, Richard and Mesoudi, Alex (2025) Social learning preserves both useful and useless theories by canalizing learners’ exploration. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 292 (n°2039).

Molho, Catherine, Peña, Jorge, Singh, Manvir and Derex, Maxime (2024) Do institutions evolve like material technologies ? Current Opinion in Psychology, vol. 60 (n° 101913).

Derex, Maxime, Edmiston, Pierce, Lupyan, Gary and Mesoudi, Alex (2024) Trade-offs, control conditions, and alternative designs in the experimental study of cultural evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 121 (n° 48).

Guido, Andrea, Derex, Maxime and Romaniuc, Rustam (2024) Network Connectivity and Repeated Interactions in an Information Sharing Dilemma. Annals of Economics and Statistics (n° 154). pp. 51-76.

Brinkmann, Levin, Baumann, Fabian, Derex, Maxime, Bonnefon, Jean-François, Müller, Thomas F., Nussberger, Anne-Marie, Czaplicka, Agnieszka, Acerbi, Alberto, Griffiths, Thomas L., Henrich, Joseph, Leibo, Joel Z., McElreath, Richard, Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves, Stray, Jonathan and Rahwan, Iyad (2023) Machine Culture. Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 7. pp. 1855-1868.

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.

Derex, Maxime (2022) Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol.377 (n°1843).

Singh, Manvir, Acerbi, Alberto, Caldwell, Christine, Danchin, Étienne, Isabel, Guillaume, Molleman, Lucas, Scott-Philips, Thom, Tamariz, Monica, Van der Berg, Pieter, Van Leeuwen, Edwin and Derex, Maxime (2021) Beyond social learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 376 (n° 1828).

Billiard, Sylvain, Derex, Maxime, Maisonneuve, Ludovic and Rey, Thomas (2020) Convergence of knowledge in a stochastic cultural evolution model with population structure, social learning and credibility biases. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, vol. 30 (n° 14). pp. 2697-2723.

Derex, Maxime and Mesoudi, Alex (2020) Cumulative cultural evolution within evolving population structures. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 24 (n° 8). pp. 654-667.

Derex, Maxime and Boyd, Robert (2020) Technical reasoning alone does not take humans this far. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 43.

Derex, Maxime, Bonnefon, Jean-François, Boyd, Robert and Mesoudi, Alex (2019) Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology. Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 3 (n° 5). pp. 446-452.

Book Section

Derex, Maxime and Morgan, Thomas J. H. (2023) The cultural transmission of technological skills. In: The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution Tehrani, Jamshid J., Kendal, Jeremy and Kendal, Rachel (eds.) Oxford University Press. Series “Oxford Handbooks Online” Oxford ISBN 978-0-19886-925-2

Monograph

Molho, Catherine, Peña, Jorge, Singh, Manvir and Derex, Maxime (2024) Do institutions evolve like material technologies? TSE Working Paper, n. 24-1543, Toulouse

Billiard, Sylvain, Derex, Maxime, Maisonneuve, Ludovic and Rey, Thomas (2019) Convergence of knowledge in a cultural evolution model with population structure, random social learning and credibility biases.