Mesoudi, Alex - University of Exeter - Disciplines of Biosciences

个人简介

2002-2005 PhD, University of St Andrews (School of Psychology) 2001-2002 MSc Evolutionary Psychology, University of Liverpool 1998-2001 BSc Psychology, University College London Career 2015 - present Associate Professor, Biosciences, University of Exeter 2012-2015 Reader in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Durham University 2008-2012 Lecturer in Psychology, School of Biological & Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London 2007-2008 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Social & Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge 2006-2007 Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia 2005-2006 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia

研究领域

I conduct research into human cultural evolution, in which cultural change is studied as an evolutionary process that operates in parallel to genetic evolution. My 2011 book Cultural Evolution gives an easy-to-read overview of this burgeoning and inter-disciplinary field, which links many traditional social science disciplines (anthropology, archaeology, economics, linguistics, psychology etc.) within an evolutionary framework. In my own research, I run lab experiments and construct theoretical models investigating human social learning biases: who learns what, from whom, when and why. These social learning biases can then be used to explain large-scale patterns of cultural change and diversity.

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Schillinger K, Mesoudi A, Lycett SJ (2016). Copying error, evolution, and phylogenetic signal in artifactual traditions: an experimental approach using "model artifacts". Journal of Archaeological Science, 70, 23-34. Abstract. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 1 Whiten A, Caldwell CA, Mesoudi A (2016). Cultural diffusion in humans and other animals. Current Opinion in Psychology, 8, 15-21. Abstract. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 18 Mesoudi A (2016). Cultural evolution: Integrating psychology, evolution and culture. Current Opinion in Psychology, 7, 17-22. Abstract. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 18 Schillinger K, Mesoudi A, Lycett SJ (2016). Differences in Manufacturing Traditions and Assemblage-Level Patterns: the Origins of Cultural Differences in Archaeological Data. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 1-19. Abstract. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 2 Ellis EC, Richerson PJ, Mesoudi A, Svenning JC, Odling-Smee J, Burnside WR (2016). Evolving the human niche. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 113(31). Author URL. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 3 Mesoudi A, Magid K, Hussain D (2016). How Do People Become W.E.I.R.D.? Migration Reveals the Cultural Transmission Mechanisms Underlying Variation in Psychological Processes. PLoS One, 11(1). Abstract. Author URL. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 148 Acerbi A, Tennie C, Mesoudi A (2016). Social learning solves the problem of narrow-peaked search landscapes: Experimental evidence in humans. Royal Society Open Science, 3(9). Abstract. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 16 Mesoudi A, Chang L, Dall SRX, Thornton A (2016). The evolution of individual and cultural variation in social learning. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 31(3), 215-225. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 38 Mesoudi A (2015). Cultural Evolution: a Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies. Evolutionary Biology Abstract. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 3 Priestley M, Mesoudi A (2015). Do Online Voting Patterns Reflect Evolved Features of Human Cognition? an Exploratory Empirical Investigation. PLoS One, 10(6). Abstract. Author URL. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 16 Lycett SJ, Schillinger K, Eren MI, von Cramon-Taubadel N, Mesoudi A (2015). Factors affecting Acheulean handaxe variation: Experimental insights, microevolutionary processes, and macroevolutionary outcomes. Quaternary International Abstract. Article has an altmetric score of 5 Mesoudi A, Chang L, Murray K, Lu HJ (2015). Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282(1798), 20142209-20142209. Abstract. Author URL. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 53 Acerbi A, Mesoudi A (2015). If we are all cultural Darwinians what’s the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in the field of cultural evolution. Biology and Philosophy, 30(4), 481-503. Abstract. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 18 Schillinger K, Mesoudi A, Lycett SJ (2015). The impact of imitative versus emulative learning mechanisms on artifactual variation: Implications for the evolution of material culture. Evolution and Human Behavior Abstract. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 1 Kempe M, Mesoudi A (2014). An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(4), 285-290. Abstract. Article has an altmetric score of 7 Schillinger K, Mesoudi A, Lycett SJ (2014). Considering the role of time budgets on copy-error rates in material culture traditions: an experimental assessment. PLoS One, 9(5). Abstract. Author URL. Full text. Article has an altmetric score of 4 Schillinger K, Mesoudi A, Lycett SJ (2014). Copying error and the cultural evolution of "Additive" vs. "Reductive" material traditions: an experimental assessment. American Antiquity, 79(1), 128-143. Abstract. Mesoudi A (2014). Cultural evolution in more than two dimensions: distinguishing social learning biases and identifying payoff structures. Behav Brain Sci, 37(1), 91-92. Abstract. Author URL. Kempe M, Mesoudi A (2014). Experimental and theoretical models of human cultural evolution. WIREs Cognitive Science, 5, 317-326. Abstract. Kempe M, Lycett SJ, Mesoudi A (2014). From cultural traditions to cumulative culture: parameterizing the differences between human and nonhuman culture. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 359, 29-36.