Journal Articles 

Mesoudi, A. (in press) An experimental simulation of the "copy-successful-individuals" cultural learning strategy: Adaptive landscapes, producer-scrounger dynamics and informational access costs. Evolution and Human Behavior.

Mesoudi, A. & O'Brien, M.J. (in press) The cultural transmission of Great Basin projectile point technology II: An agent-based computer simulation. American Antiquity.

Danielson, P., Mesoudi, A. & Stanev, R. (in press) N.E.R.D. and norms: Framework and experiments. Philosophy of Science.

Mesoudi, P. & Danielson, P. (2008) Ethics, evolution and culture. Theory in Biosciences.

Mesoudi, A. (2008) A Darwinian theory of cultural evolution can promote an evolutionary synthesis for the social sciences. Biological Theory 2(3), 263-275.

Mesoudi, A. (2008) Foresight in cultural evolution. Biology and Philosophy 23(2), 243-255.

Mesoudi, A. & O’'Brien, M.J. (2008) The cultural transmission of Great Basin projectile point technology I: An experimental simulation. American Antiquity 73(1), 3-28.

Mesoudi, A. (2007) Biological and cultural evolution: Similar but different. Biological Theory 2(2), 119-123.

Mesoudi, A. & Laland, K.N. (2007) Culturally transmitted paternity beliefs and the evolution of human mating behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274, 1273-1278.

Mesoudi, A. (2007) Using the methods of experimental social psychology to study cultural evolution. Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology 1(2), 35-58.

Mesoudi, A., Whiten, A. & Dunbar, R. (2006) A bias for social information in human cultural transmission. British Journal of Psychology 97(3), 405-423.

Mesoudi, A., Whiten, A. & Laland, K.N. (2006) Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29(4), 329-383 (Target article and response to commentaries).

Mesoudi, A., Whiten, A. & Laland, K.N. (2004). Is human cultural evolution Darwinian? Evidence reviewed from the perspective of The Origin of Species. Evolution, 58(1), 1-11.

Mesoudi, A. & Whiten, A. (2004). The hierarchical transformation of event knowledge in human cultural transmission. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 4(1), 1-24.

 

Short Articles, Commentaries & Book Reviews

Mesoudi, A. (2007) Extended evolutionary theory makes human culture more amenable to evolutionary analysis. Commentary on Jablonka, E. & Lamb, M. J., Précis of Evolution in Four Dimensions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30(4), 374.

Mesoudi, A. (2007) Has mental time travel really affected human culture? Commentary on Suddendorf, T. & Corballis, M. C. The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel and is it unique to humans? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30(3), 326-327. 

Mesoudi, A., Whiten, A. & Laland, K.N. (2007) Science, evolution and cultural anthropology. Anthropology Today 22, p.18. (A response to Ingold [2007] The trouble with "evolutionary biology")

Mesoudi, A. & Laland, K.N. (2007) Extending the behavioral sciences framework: clarification of methods, predictions and concepts. Commentary on H. Gintis, A framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30(1), 36-37.

 Mesoudi, A. (2007) Book review of Levinson, S.C. and Jaisson, P. Evolution and Culture. Quarterly Review of Biology 82(1), 45.

Mesoudi, A. (2005) Book review of Richerson, P.J. and Boyd, R. Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution. Quarterly Review of Biology 80(4), 506-507.


Book Chapters

Mesoudi, A. (in press) Studying cultural innovation in the psychology lab. In Cultural Innovation: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology, edited by M.J. O’Brien and S.J. Shennan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Mesoudi, A. (in press) The experimental study of cultural transmission and its potential for explaining archaeological data. In Cultural Transmission and Archaeology: Issues and Case Studies, edited by M.J. O’Brien. Washington, D.C.: Society for American Archaeology Press. 

Mesoudi, A. & O'’Brien, M.J. (in press) Placing archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution. In Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution, edited by S.J. Shennan. Berkeley: University of California Press.


PhD Thesis

Mesoudi, A. (2005) The transmission and evolution of human culture. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of St Andrews, UK.