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Interesting study about the cultural evolution of moral views, what arguments are most likely to persuade whom, and why.

25.11.2025 10:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m not sure I understand your comments. The issue debated here is whether non-human animals are capable of representing sequential order in a precise way.

13.11.2025 13:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Love it, so catchy!

13.11.2025 10:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our comment on Reindl et al.’s sequence discrimination study is out. Their findings actually support the sequence hypothesis, strengthening the case for this potentially powerful explanation of human cognitive and cultural abilities. Happy to see more work pushing this discussion forward!

13.11.2025 09:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Just submitted a book ms! An edited volume, edited together with super scientist @annajonand.bsky.social. Now I'm going #birding for the rest of the weekend <3
#submissionfriday

31.10.2025 10:12 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Screenshot of article with abstract, article reference is: Enquist, M., Ghirlanda, S., Hattiangadi, A., Lind, J., & Gredebäck, G. (2024). A joint future for cultural evolution and developmental psychology. Developmental Review, 73, 101147.

A bit late on this, but here we explore how cultural information
can guide development of behavior & cognitive skills just like genes. Can cultural evolution result in teaching trajectories that promote incremental acquisition of complex tasks?
#culturalevolution #developmentalpsychology #modelling

19.08.2025 13:21 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

Sequences and animal intelligence | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Here, we explore some cognitive mechanisms that support and constrain sequential abilities in non-human animals (hereafter animals). By examining limits in memory for stimulus sequences and how behavi...

New paper! @johanlind.bsky.social and I examine both sequential input representation and sequential output in non-human animals. We question the use of complex anthropocentric models in cases where simpler models based on associative learning make more accurate predictions. doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

29.06.2025 17:41 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Grant for recruiting international visiting researchers to Sweden The purpose of the grant is to give higher education institutions and other research organisations the opportunity to develop and strengthen a research field by recruiting, in the near future, a promi...

Funding opportunity in Sweden for researchers established outside Europe! We welcome project suggestions within Cultural Evolution for a one year visit at the Centre for Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University. Contact me if you are interested and feel free to share. www.vr.se/english/appl...

16.06.2025 13:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Latest from the lab: our theory of how paranoia can be about social things, without dedicated social processing @juliasheffield.bsky.social, Santiago Castiello, Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe, @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social and @celiaheyes.bsky.social

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14.06.2025 22:41 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed Many scientists see evidence of language in the sounds animals put together, but they may be kidding themselves.

Wrote a popular piece with @johanlind.bsky.social on why human language is so different from other animal communication. There’s a growing wave of studies suggesting key features of human language are present among animals. We propose a different perspective:
theconversation.com/animals-cant...

10.06.2025 07:16 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1