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Alex Mesoudi is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences with significant contributions to subfields including sociology and political science, cultural studies, social psychology, statistical and nonlinear physics, and demography.

The scholar's work focuses on topics such as evolutionary game theory and cooperation, language and cultural evolution, cultural differences and values, culture, economy, and development studies, opinion dynamics and social influence, social and intergroup psychology, and experimental behavioral economics studies.

Recent publications highlight Mesoudi's engagement with cultural evolution and social learning. Notable papers include:

  • "Cultural selection and biased transformation: two dynamics of cultural evolution," 2021, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Cumulative Cultural Evolution within Evolving Population Structures," 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation," 2023, Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • "The emergence and adaptive use of prestige in an online social learning task," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Analogy as a Catalyst for Cumulative Cultural Evolution," 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Mesoudi frequently collaborates with other researchers. Regular coauthors include Ángel V. Jiménez, Maxime Derex, Charlotte Brand, Paul E. Smaldino, and Thomas J. H. Morgan.

The scholar's research has appeared in several publication venues multiple times, such as Evolutionary Human Sciences, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, PLoS ONE, and the Journal of The Royal Society Interface.

Best Publications

  • Towards a unified science of cultural evolution

    Alex Mesoudi;Andrew Whiten;Kevin N. Laland

  • Beyond DNA: integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution

    Étienne Danchin;Anne Charmantier;Frances A. Champagne;Alex Mesoudi

  • Cultural Evolution

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  • Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences

    Alex Mesoudi

  • PERSPECTIVE:IS HUMAN CULTURAL EVOLUTION DARWINIAN? EVIDENCE REVIEWED FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

    Alex Mesoudi;Andrew Whiten;Kevin N. Laland

  • The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution

    Alex Mesoudi;Andrew Whiten

  • A bias for social information in human cultural transmission

    Alex Mesoudi;Andrew Whiten;Robin Dunbar

  • Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies

    Alex Mesoudi;Alex Mesoudi

  • What is cumulative cultural evolution

    Alex Mesoudi;Alex Thornton

  • THE CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF GREAT BASIN PROJECTILE-POINT TECHNOLOGY I: AN EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATION

    Alex Mesoudi;Michael J. O'Brien

  • The Evolution of Individual and Cultural Variation in Social Learning

    Alex Mesoudi;Lei Chang;Sasha R.X. Dall;Alex Thornton

  • An experimental simulation of the “copy-successful-individuals” cultural learning strategy: adaptive landscapes, producer–scrounger dynamics, and informational access costs

    Alex Mesoudi

  • Establishing an experimental science of culture: animal social diffusion experiments

    Andrew Whiten;Alex Mesoudi

  • How cultural evolutionary theory can inform social psychology and vice versa.

    Alex Mesoudi

  • Variable cultural acquisition costs constrain cumulative cultural evolution.

    Alex Mesoudi

  • Prestige-biased social learning: current evidence and outstanding questions

    Ángel V. Jiménez;Alex Mesoudi

  • If we are all cultural Darwinians what’s the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in the field of cultural evolution

    Alberto Acerbi;Alberto Acerbi;Alex Mesoudi;Alex Mesoudi

  • An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused

    Alex Mesoudi

  • The cultural dynamics of copycat suicide.

    Alex Mesoudi

  • The Hierarchical Transformation of Event Knowledge in Human Cultural Transmission

    Alex Mesoudi;Andrew Whiten

  • Random copying, frequency-dependent copying and culture change

    Alex Mesoudi;Alex Mesoudi;Stephen J. Lycett;Stephen J. Lycett

  • A framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences. Commentaries. Author's reply

    Herbert Gintis;George Ainslie;Larry Arnhart;R. Alexander Bentley

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Whiten
Andrew Whiten University of St Andrews
Stephen Shennan
Stephen Shennan University College London
Alex Thornton
Alex Thornton University of Exeter
R. Alexander Bentley
R. Alexander Bentley University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Robert Boyd
Robert Boyd Arizona State University
Mark G. Thomas
Mark G. Thomas University College London
Lei Chang
Lei Chang University of Macau
Alan G. McElligott
Alan G. McElligott City University of Hong Kong
Joachim I. Krueger
Joachim I. Krueger Brown University
Andrew M. Colman
Andrew M. Colman University of Leicester

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