Maxime Derex, and Charlotte Brand, “Studying long-term evolutionary processes over short timescales: Methods in cumulative cultural evolution”, in The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution, Limor Raviv, and Cedric Boeckx (eds.), Oxford University Press, chapter 14, May 2025, p. 241–258.
Maxime Derex, Pierce Edmiston, Gary Lupyan, and Alex Mesoudi, “Trade-offs, control conditions, and alternative designs in the experimental study of cultural evolution”, PNAS, vol. 48, n. e2322886121, November 2024.
Andrea Guido, Maxime Derex, and Rustam Romaniuc, “Network Connectivity and Repeated Interactions in an Information Sharing Dilemma”, Annals of Economics and Statistics, vol. 154, June 2024, pp. 51–76.
Catherine Molho, Jorge Peña, Manvir Singh, and Maxime Derex, “Do institutions evolve like material technologies?”, Current Opinion in Psychology, n. 101913, 2024.
Levin Brinkmann, Fabian Baumann, Maxime Derex, Jean-François Bonnefon, Thomas F. Müller, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Agnieszka Czaplicka, Alberto Acerbi, Thomas L. Griffiths, Joseph Henrich, Joel Z. Leibo, Richard McElreath, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Jonathan Stray, and Iyad Rahwan, “Machine Culture”, Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 7, November 2023, p. 1855–1868.
Maxime Derex, and Thomas J. H. Morgan, “The Cultural Transmission of Technological Skills”, in The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, Jamshid J. Tehrani, Jeremy Kendal, and Rachel Kendal (eds.), Oxford University Press, February 2023.
Javier Fernández-López de Pablo, Valéria Romano, Maxime Derex, Erik Gjesfjeld, Claudine Gravel-Miguel, Marcus J. Hamilton, Andrea Bamberg Migliano, Felix Riede, and Sergi Lozano, “Understanding hunter–gatherer cultural evolution needs network thinking”, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 37, n. 8, August 2022, pp. 632–636.
Maxime Derex, “Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 377, n. 1843, January 2022.
Manvir Singh, Alberto Acerbi, Christine Caldwell, Etienne Danchin, Guillaume Isabel, Lucas Molleman, Thom Scott-Philips, Monica Tamariz, Pieter Van der Berg, Edwin Van Leeuwen, and Maxime Derex, “Beyond social learning”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 376, n. 1828, July 2021.
Sylvain Billiard, Maxime Derex, Ludovic Maisonneuve, and Thomas Rey, “Convergence of knowledge in a stochastic cultural evolution model with population structure, social learning and credibility biasess”, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, vol. 30, n. 14, December 2020, pp. 2697–2723.
Maxime Derex, and Robert Boyd, “Technical reasoning alone does not take humans this far”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 43, August 2020.
Maxime Derex, and Alex Mesoudi, “Cumulative cultural evolution within evolving population structures”, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 24, n. 8, August 2020, pp. 654–667.
Maxime Derex, Jean-François Bonnefon, Robert Boyd, and Alex Mesoudi, “Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology”, Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 3, May 2019, pp. 446–452.