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A Comparative Approach to the Study of Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Go? (2024)
Journal Article
Vale, G. L., & Rawlings, B. S. (2024). A Comparative Approach to the Study of Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Go?. Comparative cognition & behavior reviews, 19, 97-103. https://doi.org/10.3819/ccbr.2024.190021

Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) in nonhumans remains rare. Here, we suggest that this results partly from methodological challenges involved in comparative CCE. We discuss two core challenges researchers in the field face: our sample... Read More about A Comparative Approach to the Study of Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Go?.

‘Fog on the tyne’? The ‘common-sense’ focus on ‘sportswashing’ and the 2021 takeover of Newcastle United (2024)
Journal Article
Crossley, S., & Woolf, A. (2024). ‘Fog on the tyne’? The ‘common-sense’ focus on ‘sportswashing’ and the 2021 takeover of Newcastle United. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2024.2342394

On 7 October 2021, a controversial takeover of the English Premier League team Newcastle United Football Club saw an 80% stake acquired by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF), the country’s sovereign wealth fund. Public discussion and medi... Read More about ‘Fog on the tyne’? The ‘common-sense’ focus on ‘sportswashing’ and the 2021 takeover of Newcastle United.