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Abstract: Some cultural evolution researchers have argued for the importance of prestige bias as a systematic and widespread social learning bias, that structures human social learning and cultural transmission patterns. Broadly...

The Cultural Evolution of Human Social Cognition Cultural Evolution Prestige Bias Cognition Social learning

In the later nineteenth century, Americans trained and acquired history degrees in Europe and Germany. It was in Europe that American scholars developed their understanding of what an "Historian" was. This image was one of a...

academia Historiography Scholarship Institutions Boundaries Medieval Studies Prestige Arts and Humanities Education Higher Education History