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View article: Simulation-based inference with deep learning suggests speed climbers combine innovation and copying to improve performance
Simulation-based inference with deep learning suggests speed climbers combine innovation and copying to improve performance Open
In the Olympic sport of speed climbing, athletes compete to reach the top of a 15-meter wall as quickly as possible. Since the standardization of the speed climbing route in 2007, improvement has been driven by a process of cumulative cult…
View article: The Scientific and Cultural Cost of Convenience Sampling in the Face of Rising Language Endangerment: Highlighting the Role of Language Acquisition
The Scientific and Cultural Cost of Convenience Sampling in the Face of Rising Language Endangerment: Highlighting the Role of Language Acquisition Open
We live in an unprecedented era of language endangerment and loss. In the midst of this crisis, it is becoming more and more evident that the psychological and cognitive sciences know very little about how most of the world’s languages are…
View article: Simulation-based inference with deep learning shows speed climbers combine innovation and copying to improve performance
Simulation-based inference with deep learning shows speed climbers combine innovation and copying to improve performance Open
In the Olympic sport of speed climbing, athletes compete to reach the top of a 15-meter wall as quickly as possible. Since the standardization of the speed climbing route in 2007, improvement has been driven by a process of cumulative cult…
View article: Simulation-based inference with deep learning suggests speed climbers combine innovation and copying to improve performance
Simulation-based inference with deep learning suggests speed climbers combine innovation and copying to improve performance Open
In the Olympic sport of speed climbing, athletes compete to reach the top of a 15-meter wall as quickly as possible. Since the standardization of the speed climbing route in 2007, improvement has been driven by a process of cumulative cult…
View article: Convergent evolution in a large cross-cultural database of musical scales
Convergent evolution in a large cross-cultural database of musical scales Open
Scales, sets of discrete pitches that form the basis of melodies, are thought to be one of the most universal hallmarks of music. But we know relatively little about cross-cultural diversity of scales or how they evolved. To remedy this, w…
View article: Group singing is globally dominant and associated with social context
Group singing is globally dominant and associated with social context Open
Music is an interactive technology associated with religious and communal activities and was suggested to have evolved as a participatory activity supporting social bonding. In post-industrial societies, however, music's communal role was …
View article: Societies of strangers do not speak less complex languages
Societies of strangers do not speak less complex languages Open
Many recent proposals claim that languages adapt to their environments. The linguistic niche hypothesis claims that languages with numerous native speakers and substantial proportions of nonnative speakers (societies of strangers) tend to …
View article: Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology
Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology Open
For a single species, human kinship organization is both remarkably diverse and strikingly organized. Kinship terminology is the structured vocabulary used to classify, refer to, and address relatives and family. Diversity in kinship termi…
View article: Grambank v1.0
Grambank v1.0 Open
Cite the source of the dataset as: Skirgård, Hedvig and Haynie, Hannah J. and Blasi, Damián E. and Hammarström, Harald and Collins, Jeremy and Latarche, Jay J. and Lesage, Jakob and Weber, Tobias and Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena and Passmore…
View article: Grambank v1.0
Grambank v1.0 Open
Cite the source of the dataset as: Skirgård, Hedvig and Haynie, Hannah J. and Blasi, Damián E. and Hammarström, Harald and Collins, Jeremy and Latarche, Jay J. and Lesage, Jakob and Weber, Tobias and Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena and Passmore…
View article: Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss
Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss Open
While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here, we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2400 la…
View article: Grambank v1.0
Grambank v1.0 Open
Cite the source of the dataset as: Skirgård, Hedvig and Haynie, Hannah J. and Blasi, Damián E. and Hammarström, Harald and Collins, Jeremy and Latarche, Jay J. and Lesage, Jakob and Weber, Tobias and Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena and Passmore…
View article: Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories
Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories Open
Music is a universal yet diverse cultural trait transmitted between generations. The extent to which global musical diversity traces cultural and demographic history, however, is unresolved. Using a global musical dataset of 5,242 songs fr…
View article: The global recurrence and variability of kinship terminology structure
The global recurrence and variability of kinship terminology structure Open
The extent to which kinship terminology varies between linguistic groups is a long-debated but unresolved social and linguistic puzzle. Contemporary research shows that a six-category typology is overly simplistic, but no alternatives have…
View article: Societies of strangers do not speak grammatically simpler languages (original submission)
Societies of strangers do not speak grammatically simpler languages (original submission) Open
Many recent proposals claim that languages adapt to their environments. The Linguistic Niche hypothesis claims that languages with numerous native speakers and substantial proportions of non-native speakers (societies of strangers) will te…
View article: The Exceptions and the Rules in global musical diversity
The Exceptions and the Rules in global musical diversity Open
Global music diversity is a popular topic for both scientific and humanities researchers, but often for different reasons. Scientific research typically focuses on the generalities through measurement and statistics, while humanists typica…
View article: The Exceptions and the Rules in Global Musical Diversity
The Exceptions and the Rules in Global Musical Diversity Open
Global music diversity is a popular topic for both scientific and humanities researchers, but often for different reasons. Scientific research typically focuses on the generalities through measurement and statistics, while humanists typica…
View article: Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss
Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss Open
While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2,400 la…
View article: Group singing is globally dominant and associated with social context
Group singing is globally dominant and associated with social context Open
Music is an interactive technology associated with religious and communal activities and was suggested to have evolved as a participatory activity supporting social bonding. In post-industrial societies, however, music’s communal role was …
View article: The Global Jukebox: A public database of performing arts and culture
The Global Jukebox: A public database of performing arts and culture Open
Standardized cross-cultural databases of the arts are critical to a balanced scientific understanding of the performing arts, and their role in other domains of human society. This paper introduces the Global Jukebox as a resource for comp…
View article: Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology
Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology Open
The data repository for the Kinbank dataset
View article: Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology
Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology Open
The data repository for the Kinbank dataset
View article: Kinura: A database of kinship terminology from the Uralic Language family
Kinura: A database of kinship terminology from the Uralic Language family Open
The data repository for the Kinura dataset
View article: Kinura: A database of kinship terminology from the Uralic Language family
Kinura: A database of kinship terminology from the Uralic Language family Open
The data repository for the Kinura dataset
View article: Parabank: A global collection of kinship terminology
Parabank: A global collection of kinship terminology Open
The data repository for the Parabank dataset
View article: MPEGKin: A database of kinship terminology from the Tupian and Cariban language families
MPEGKin: A database of kinship terminology from the Tupian and Cariban language families Open
The data repository for the MPEGKin dataset
View article: Parabank: A global collection of kinship terminology
Parabank: A global collection of kinship terminology Open
The data repository for the Parabank dataset