Correction to: Palgrave Communications https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0175-8, Published online 2 Oct 2018

In the original version of the manuscript the legend of Fig. 2 was ambiguous as to how individuals were excluded from the network to maximize legibility, potentially leading to the perception that it may have been a subjective decision on the authors’ part. As such, a higher resolution image has been included in Fig. 2, and additional detail in the legend. These changes do not reflect a change in the study’s underlying data or results.

The image below is now displayed in Fig. 2.

The following change is made the legend of Fig. 2:

Original:

The largest connected co-authorship network in the dataset, analyzed using VOS clustering (n = 629). Red corresponds to group 1 (“biological anthropology and archeology”; n1 = 183), green corresponds to group 2 (“mathematical modeling and dual-inheritance theory”; n2 = 146), blue corresponds to group 3 (“cognitive linguistics and experimental cultural evolution”; n3 = 134), yellow corresponds to group 4 (“cross-cultural and phylogenetic studies”; n4 = 75), purple corresponds to group 5 (“computational biology and cultural niche construction”; n5 = 56), cyan corresponds to group 6 (“evolutionary psychology”; n6 = 20), and orange corresponds to group 7 (“behavioral ecology and birdsong”; n7 = 15). Name size indicates total link strength, and the authors are subsequently filtered by VOSviewer to maximize legibility.

Revised:

The largest connected co-authorship network in the dataset, analyzed using VOS clustering (n = 629). Red corresponds to group 1 (“biological anthropology and archeology”; n1 = 183), green corresponds to group 2 (“mathematical modeling and dual-inheritance theory”; n2 = 146), blue corresponds to group 3 (“cognitive linguistics and experimental cultural evolution”; n3 = 134), yellow corresponds to group 4 (“cross-cultural and phylogenetic studies”; n4 = 75), purple corresponds to group 5 (“computational biology and cultural niche construction”; n5 = 56), cyan corresponds to group 6 (“evolutionary psychology”; n6 = 20), and orange corresponds to group 7 (“behavioral ecology and birdsong”; n7 = 15). Name size indicates total link strength. Many authors were arbitrarily excluded from the figure by the visualization algorithm in VOSviewer to maximize legibility. A complete, interactive version of the network can be found in the Dataverse repository entry: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LBIDEL

In addition, the original version of this paper omitted an acknowledgement of the research funder. The following acknowledgement is now included in the paper:

Funding was provided by the John Templeton Foundation Grant ID 60459.

The article has been corrected online.

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