List of abstracts

• Baraghith, Karim — Linking Micro- and Macrolevel Models of the Cultural Evolution of Language: From Graph Theory to Game Theory
• De Barra, Michael — Why is folk medical knowledge rarely useful? Lessons from online medical product reviews.
• Derex, Maxime, Jean-François Bonnefon, Robert Boyd & Alex Mesoudi — Investigating the effects of social information on individuals’ ability at refining and understanding a physical system
• Furs, Veronika — New possibilities of storytelling in the new media era
• Gjesfjeld, Erik — Modeling Patterns of Macroevolution in Modern and Ancient Technologies
• Honkola, Terhi — Environmental differences contribute to divergence of dialect groups
• Iannucci, Giulia — Scaffolded-Self: How culture makes our selves
• Ilyushenka, Nadezhda — The Influence of Socio-Humanitarian Technologies on Cultural Evolution
• Jon-And, Anna, Mikael Parkvall & Alexander Funcke — Is language less cumulative than other culture? Indicators of breakdown and build-up of complexity in pidgins, creoles and non-contact languages
• Jiménez, Ángel V., Joseph M. Stubbersfield & Jamshid J. Tehrani — “The dipherpox controversy”: The cultural evolution of a vaccine-related narrative and its influence in vaccine decisions
• Kanger, Laur — Is Cultural Evolution useful for Science, Technology & Innovation Studies? An Outsider Perspective
• Karjus, Andres — Selection above the baseline: quantifying the advection effect in four domains of cumulative culture
• Koile, Ezequiel — Phylogeography of the Bantu Expansion
• Konsa, Kurmo — Creating our own cultures: evolution of artificial cultures
• Kruup, Kaspar — Online culture in an evolutionary pressure cooker
• Kulikauskas, Andrius  — A Universal Grammar of Games as the Basis for Language and Human Culture
• Learmouth, Duncan — Reconstructing Australian rock art history 
• Learmouth, Duncan — Creating and analysing a database of Australian ritual 
• Martini, Gessica — Cinderella: evolutionary approach to the study of folktales 
• Mets, Mark — What experimental semiotics teaches us about conventionalization of graphical sign systems
• Michaud, Jerome — Modelling the micro dynamics of cultural traits 
• Mikheev, Vladimir — Professional biographies of current bishops of Russian Orthodox Church’s (1965-2017 years): dynamic of factors for career development
• Milyakina, Leeza — Modern U.S. Sitcom: Crisis of the Genre and Prospects of Evolution
• Miśta, Rafał — Spatial Dimension of Transmission of Folk Tunes
• Miton, Helena & Olivier Morin — A Zipfian effect in heraldry? 
• Müller, Thomas & James Winters — Simplicity and functional pressures in visual art: The cultural evolution of compressed, interdependent artworks in Reddit Place
• Passmore, Sam & Fiona Jordan — A phylogenetic review of kinship terminology determinants 
• Pavlek, Barbara & Olivier Morin — Heads and Tails: the informational value of Greek coinage and its evolution (650–336 BCE)
• Peedu, Indrek — Conceptualizing ‘religion’: evolutionary models and the cultural construction of religion
• Priestley, Maria, Timothy J. Sluckin & Thanassis Tiropanis — Applying Phylogenetic Methods to Study the History of Web Technology
• Scanlon, Lauren, Andrew Lobb, Jamshid J. Tehrani & Jeremy R. Kendal — Social learning errors and the evolution of material culture: cognitive factors affecting forms of granny and reef knots
• Shelya, Artjom — The success of the shortest literary forms: why did poetry became small?
• Skorinkin, Daniil & Frank Fischer — Measuring the ‘Epification’ of Drama
• Sobchuk, Oleg — (Cultural) literary evolution vs. Literary Darwinism
• Sobchuk, Oleg & Peeter Tinits — Films become more complex: three case studies
• Strimling, Pontus, Irina Vartanova, Fredrik Jansson & Kimmo Eriksson — Trends in public opinion explained by the moral psychology of liberals and conservatives
• Tinits, Peeter & Stefan Hartmann — Social learning of knowledge representations in Wikipedia
• Tita, Michele — The evolution of disease narratives in Italy and Western world: how people keeps on reacting to danger with stories
• Tureček, Petr, Jakub Slavík, Michal Kozák & Jan Havlíček — Changes in adaptation dynamics in systems with non-particulate inheritance
• Veede, Raul — Cultural Evolution in Wikipedia: A Case Study in the Evolution of Social Epistemology
• Winters, James — Compression effects in the cultural evolution of the Vai script of West Africa
• Youngblood, Mason —  The cultural transmission of sampling traditions in a network of musical collaborators
• Youngblood, Mason & David Lahti — A bibliometric analysis of the interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution