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ArticleEvolutionary human sciences2026

The evolution of identity signals for co-ordination in diverse societies.

Nathan Gabriel, Adrian Bell, Paul Smaldino

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Article in Evolutionary human sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. A demographic theory of similarity-biased social learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Nathan GabrielDepartment of Cognitive & Information Sciences, University of California, Merced, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4501-3310
Adrian BellDepartment of Anthropology, University of Utah, Utah, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4670-384X
Paul SmaldinoDepartment of Cognitive & Information Sciences, University of California, Merced, California, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Individual social identities indicate group affiliations and are typically associated with group-typical preferences, signals that indicate group membership, and the propensity to condition actions on the social signals of others, resulting in group-differentiated interaction norms. Past work modelling identity signalling and co-ordination has typically assumed that individuals belong to one of a discrete set of groups. Yet individuals can simultaneously belong to multiple groups, which may be nested within larger groupings. Here, we introduce the

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Bach or Stravinskyco-ordinationcultural evolutionidentity signalsintersectionality

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