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journal articles

Cumulative Science via Bayesian Posterior Passing: An introduction

​Brand, C. O., Ounsley, J. P., & van der Post, D., J. (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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