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Cultural Evolution Palgrave Communications (https://www.nature.com/palcomms) the open access journal from Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature), which publishes research across the humanities and social sciences, is currently inviting article proposals and full papers for a research article collection (‘special issue’) on Cultural Evolution (https://www.nature.com/palcomms/for-authors/call-for-papers#culturalevolution). This collection is being edited by Dr Jamshid Tehrani (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK) This is a rolling article collection and as such submissions will be welcomed until the end of March 2019. To register interest prospective authors should submit a short article proposal (abstract summary) to the Editorial Office ([log in to unmask]) in the first instance. Overview Cultural evolution describes how socially learned ideas, rules, and skills are transmitted and change over time, giving rise to diverse forms of social organization, belief systems, languages, technologies and artistic traditions. This research article collection will showcase cutting-edge research into cultural evolution, bringing together contributions that reflect the interdisciplinary scope of this rapidly growing field, as well as the diversity of topics and approaches within it. Quantitative and qualitative research from a range of perspectives and disciplines is welcomed, including: sociology, archaeology, anthropology, complex network analysis, economics, history, linguistics, medical humanities, politics, psychology, philosophy, and religious studies. Contributions are invited on, but not restricted to, the following themes: • Comparative studies of social learning and/or cultural transmission; • Evolution in human behaviour; • Cognitive anthropology; • Cultural attraction theory; • Experimental studies of cultural evolution; • Novel methodologies to study sociocultural evolution; • Quantitative/complex network analysis; • Modelling studies of cultural evolutionary dynamics; • Phylogenetic analysis of culture and language; • Gene-culture co-evolution and human niche construction; • Evolution of religious practices and beliefs; • Real-world applications of cultural evolutionary knowledge, e.g. to grand societal challenges; • Evolution of language and communication; • Philosophical perspectives on cultural evolution. The journal operates under an Open Access model (https://www.nature.com/palcomms/about/openaccess). For more information, please visit our open research site (http://www.nature.com/openresearch/palgravejournal/palcomms/) Follow us on Twitter: @PalCommsOA Palgrave Macmillan is part of the Springer portfolio, published by Springer Nature, one of the world’s leading global research, educational and professional publishers. We publish award-winning research that changes the world across the humanites, social sciences and business for academics, professionals and librarians. We offer authors and readers the very best in academic content whilst also supporting the community with innovative new formats and tools. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------