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Articles 1–20. Institut Jean Nicod, Paris - Cited by 1,751 - quantitative cultural history - cultural evolution.
Articles 1–20. Professor in Radiation Oncology/ Medical Physics - Cited by 6,380 - Director of Informatics and Data Science.
Cultural transmission and evolution.
Olivier Morin. I am a CNRS Chargé de Recherches (full-time tenured research position) at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris. My full CV is here (FR / EN). My work focuses on cultural transmission and touches on the relations between anthropology and psychology, with a special focus on the evolution of writing.
Jul 13, 2021 · Field of research. I study cultural transmission, the way traditions are passed on from person to person. This key mechanism in human history and evolution bridges three distinct levels: individual human cognition, interactions between individuals, and population-level processes.
Olivier Morin, First published: 28 July 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12252. Citations: 4. Sections. PDF. Tools. Share. Abstract. Cognitive gadgets puts forward an ambitious claim: language, mindreading, and imitation evolved by cultural group selection.
Scroll down for publications in French. Book. (2015) How Traditions Live and Die. Oxford University Press. (Read the introduction; review of the French edition in Social Anthropology; reviews of the US/UK edition by Kim Sterelny, Andrew Buskell, Csaba Pléh, Pete Richerson). Journal articles. (2023) Morin, Olivier. The Puzzle of Ideography.