title: Introduction. Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour.
abstract: The articles in this theme issue seek to understand the evolutionary bases of social learning and the consequences of cultural transmission for the evolution of human behaviour. In this introductory article, we provide a summary of these articles (seven articles on the experimental exploration of cultural transmission and three articles on the role of gene-culture coevolution in shaping human behaviour) and a personal view of some promising lines of development suggested by the work summarized here.
authors.affiliation: Division of Psychology, Cognition and Communication Research Centre, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. kenny.smith@northumbria.ac.uk
authors.forename: Kenny
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Michael L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Kalish
authors.forename: Thomas L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Griffiths
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lewandowsky
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D012919:Social Behavior
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