Organized as a satellite to the annual Conference on Complex Systems, the Evolution of Cultural Complexity held its inaugural workshop in Tempe, Arizona, in 2015, a second in Cancún, Mexico, in 2017, and a third in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2018. The goal of those satellite sessions was to bring together a community of researchers from different fields who had interests in the evolution of cultural complexity. This special issue includes three papers that grew out of those workshops and one paper that was solicited. Each brings a unique perspective on myriad issues that surround how and why culture evolves. One issue that is key to understanding the evolution of cultural complexity—and it is addressed in the papers included here—is how humans learn and transmit information and the rate at which it is learned and transmitted.

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文化复杂性演变研讨会论文简介

作为复杂系统年度会议的卫星组织，文化复杂性的演变于 2015 年在亚利桑那州坦佩举行了首届研讨会，2017 年在墨西哥坎昆举行了第二次研讨会，2018 年在希腊塞萨洛尼基举行了第三次研讨会。这些卫星会议的目标是将来自不同领域、对文化复杂性的演变感兴趣的研究人员聚集在一起。本期特刊包括三篇源自这些研讨会的论文和一篇征集的论文。每个人都对围绕文化如何以及为何演变的无数问题提出了独特的观点。理解文化复杂性演变的一个关键问题——这里包含的论文中都提到了这一点——是人类如何学习和传递信息以及学习和传递信息的速度。