Maxime Derex

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique — France

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Language and cultural evolution(30), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(29), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics(7), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies(6), Cultural Differences and Values(5)

Publications43 total

Studying long-term evolutionary processes over short timescales
Oxford University Press eBooks·2025
Social learning preserves both useful and useless theories by canalizing learners’ exploration
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Trade-offs, control conditions, and alternative designs in the experimental study of cultural evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Do institutions evolve like material technologies?
Current Opinion in Psychology·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
Do institutions evolve like material technologies?
2024Open Access
Machine culture
Nature Human Behaviour·2023· 90 citedOpen Access
Cultural Transmission of Technological Skills
Oxford University Press eBooks·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Understanding hunter–gatherer cultural evolution needs network thinking
Trends in Ecology & Evolution·2022· 56 citedOpen Access
Community Size Reduces the Relative Advantage of Partnersover Strangers in a Sharing Dilemma
SSRN Electronic Journal·2022Open Access
Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2021· 59 citedOpen Access
Beyond social learning
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2021· 35 citedOpen Access
Convergence of knowledge in a stochastic cultural evolution model with population structure, social learning and credibility biases
Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences·2020· 4 citedOpen Access
Cumulative Cultural Evolution within Evolving Population Structures
Trends in Cognitive Sciences·2020· 163 citedOpen Access
Cumulative cultural evolution within evolving population structures
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics·2020
Technical reasoning alone does not take humans this far
Behavioral and Brain Sciences·2020· 2 cited
Convergence of knowledge in a cultural evolution model with population structure, random social learning and credibility biases
arXiv (Cornell University)·2019Open Access
Competition for novelty reduces information sampling in a research game - a registered report
Royal Society Open Science·2019· 12 citedOpen Access
Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology
Nature Human Behaviour·2019· 142 cited
Competition for novelty in an information-sampling game
Psychology Archives·2019Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Robert Boyd(13), Alex Mesoudi(8), Bernard Godelle(5), Michel Raymond(5), Jean‐François Bonnefon(4), Leonid Tiokhin(4), Charles Perreault(3), Manvir Singh(3), Marie‐Pauline Beugin(2), Joseph Henrich(2), Michelle A. Kline(2), Alberto Acerbi(2), Richard McElreath(2), Thierry Lengagne(2), Doris Gomez(2), Sandrine Plénet(2), Jean‐Paul Léna(2), Sylvain Billiard(2), Ludovic Maisonneuve(2), Thomas Rey(2)