Process and pattern in innovations from cells to societies – Theme Issue
Philosop
hical Transactions of the Royal Society B has published a theme issue with the title Process and pattern in innovations from cells to societies (see a list of papers below). The published articles approach innovation both with theoretical and conceptual, but also with experimental methods. What makes an innovation, who innovates, and when do innovations occur? This issue addresses many questions that were also raised at this year’s Culture Conference.
Article list:
Innovation: an emerging focus from cells to societies
Michael E. Hochberg, Pablo A. Marquet, Robert Boyd, Andreas Wagner
Information theory, evolutionary innovations and evolvability
Andreas Wagner
The topology of evolutionary novelty and innovation in macroevolution
Douglas H. Erwin
Phylogenetic tests for evolutionary innovation: the problematic link between key innovations and exceptional diversification
Daniel L. Rabosky
The origin of heredity in protocells
Timothy West, Victor Sojo, Andrew Pomiankowski, Nick Lane
Nascent life cycles and the emergence of higher-level individuality
William C. Ratcliff, Matthew Herron, Peter L. Conlin, Eric Libby
Cooperation and cheating as innovation: insights from cellular societies
Athena Aktipis, Carlo C. Maley
Non-adaptive origins of evolutionary innovations increase network complexity in interacting digital organisms
Miguel A. Fortuna, Luis Zaman, Andreas Wagner, Jordi Bascompte
Sampling the mobile gene pool: innovation via horizontal gene transfer in bacteria
James P. J. Hall, Michael A. Brockhurst, Ellie Harrison
The conceptual foundations of network-based diffusion analysis: choosing networks and interpreting results
Will Hoppitt
Inferring processes of cultural transmission: the critical role of rare variants in distinguishing neutrality from novelty biases
James P. O’Dwyer, Anne Kandler
Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children
Nicola McGuigan, Emily Burdett, Vanessa Burgess, Lewis Dean, Amanda Lucas, Gillian Vale, Andrew Whiten
Cognitive innovations and the evolutionary biology of expertise
Reuven Dukas
Geographic mosaics and changing rates of cereal domestication
Robin G. Allaby, Chris Stevens, Leilani Lucas, Osamu Maeda, Dorian Q. Fuller
The niche construction of cultural complexity: interactions between innovations, population size and the environment
Laurel Fogarty, Nicole Creanza
Innovation and the growth of human population
V. P. Weinberger, C. Quiñinao, P. A. Marquet
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