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journal articles

~~The emergence and adaptive use of prestige in an online social learning task~~

Brand, Charlotte, Heap, Stephen, Morgan, Thomas J.H. & Mesoudi, Alex (2020) Scientific Reports.

~~Experimental evolutionary simulations of learning, memory and life history~~

Morgan, Thomas J. H., Suchow, Jordan W., Griffiths, Thomas L. (2020) Phil Trans B.

~~What the Baldwin Effect affects depends on the nature of plasticity~~

Morgan, Thomas J. H., Suchow, Jordan W., Griffiths, Thomas L. (2020) Cognition.

~~By Reverence, not Fear: Prestige, religion, and autonomic regulation in the evolution of cooperation~~

Lenfesty, Hillary L., Morgan, Thomas J. H. (2019) Frontiers in Psychology.

~~Cumulative Science via Bayesian Posterior Passing: An introduction~~

Brand, C. O., Ounsley, J. P., van der Post, D., J. & Morgan, T. J. H. (2019) Metapsychology.

~~Copy-the-majority of instances or individuals? Two approaches to the majority and their consequences for conformist decision-making.~~

Morgan T.J.H., Acerbi A., & van Leeuwen E.J.C. (2019) PLoS ONE.

~~Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning~~

Street, S. E. & Morgan, T. J. H., Thornton, A., Brown, G. R., Laland, K. N., & Cross, C. P. (2018). Scientific Reports.

~~Sex differences in confidence influence patterns of conformity~~

Cross, C. P., Brown, G. R. , Morgan, T. J. H. & Laland, K. N. (2016) British Journal of Psychology.

~~Testing the cognitive and cultural niche theories of human evolution~~

Morgan, T.J.H. (2016). Current Anthropology. 57(3): 370–377.

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~~The when and who of social learning and conformist transmission.~~

Muthukrishna, M., Morgan, T. J. H., & Henrich, J. (2016). Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(1), 10–20.

~~James Mark Baldwin and contemporary theories of culture and evolution.~~

Morgan, T. J. H., & Harris, P. L. (2015). European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 12, 666-677.

~~Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language.~~

Morgan, T. J. H., Uomini, N. T., Rendell, L. E., Street, S. E., Lewis, H. M., Cross, C. P., Evans, C., Kearney, R., de la Torre, I., Whiten, A., & Laland, K. N. (2015). Nature Communications, 6, 1–8.

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~~The Development of Adaptive Conformity in Young Children: Effects of Uncertainty and Consensus.~~

Morgan, T. J. H., K. Laland & P. L. Harris (2014). Developmental Science, 18 (4), 511-524.

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~~Is Non-genetic Inheritance Just a Proximate Mechanism? A Corroboration of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.~~

Mesoudi, A., S. Blanchet, A. Charmantier, É. Danchin, L. Fogarty, E. Jablonka, K. N. Laland, T. J. H. Morgan, G. B. Müller, F. J. Odling-Smee & B. Pujol (2013). Biological Theory, 7, 189–195.

~~The Biological Bases of Conformity.~~

Morgan, T. J. H., & K. N. Laland (2012). Frontiers in Neuroscience 6, 1–7.

~~The Evolutionary Basis of Human Social Learning.~~

Morgan, T. J. H., L. E. Rendell, M. Ehn, W. J. E. Hoppitt, and K. N. Laland (2011). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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~~Cognitive Culture: Theoretical and Empirical Insights into Social Learning Strategies.~~

Rendell, L. E., L. Fogarty, W. J. E. Hoppitt, T. J. H. Morgan, M. M. Webster, and K. N. Laland (2011). Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15, 68–76.

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book chapters

~~Nothing in human behavior makes sense except in the light of culture: Shared interests of social psychology and cultural evolution.~~

Morgan, T. J. H., C. P. Cross & L. E. Rendell. (2015). In Zeigler-Hill, V., L. L. M. Welling & T. K. Shackelford (eds) Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology. Springer.

~~What animals other than primates can tell us about human cultural transmission.~~

Laland, K. N., A. Cowie, & T. J. H. Morgan (2013). In Ellen, R., Lycett, S., Johns, S. (eds) Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology. Berghahn: New York/Oxford.

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conference proceedings

~~What the Baldwin Effect affects~~

Morgan, T. J. H., & T. L. Griffiths (2015). Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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pre-prints

~~The use of informative priors and Bayesian updating: implications for behavioural research~~

Brand, C. O., J. P. Ounsley, D. J. van der Post & T. J. H. Morgan (2017) OSF Preprint

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book reviews

~~A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species by Boyd, Robert. Review.~~

T. J. H. Morgan (2018), Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 2 (2).

~~Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind by Laland, Kevin. Review.~~

T. J. H. Morgan (2018), Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 2.

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