Complexity and demographic explanations of cumulative culture. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Formal models have linked prehistoric and historical instances of technological change (e.g., the Upper Paleolithic transition, cultural loss in Holocene Tasmania, scientific progress since the late nineteenth century) to demographic change. According to
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Small steps for mankind: Modeling the emergence of cumulative culture from joint active inference communication [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2023 Although the increase in the use of dynamical modeling in the literature on cultural evolution makes current models more mathematically sophisticated, these models have yet to be tested or validated.
Natalie Kastel +9 more
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Making Cognitive Niches Explicit: On the Importance of External Cognitive Representations in Accounting for Cumulative Culture [PDF]
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2021 Cumulative transmission and innovation are the hallmark properties of the cultural achievements of human beings. Cognitive scientists have traditionally explained these properties in terms of social learning and creativity.
Mateusz Hohol +3 more
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Pathways to cultural adaptation: the coevolution of cumulative culture and social networks [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2023 Humans have adapted to an immense array of environments by accumulating culturally transmitted knowledge and skills. Adaptive culture can accumulate either via more distinct cultural traits or via improvements of existing cultural traits.
Marco Smolla, Erol Akçay
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Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Human learners are rarely the passive recipients of valuable social information. Rather, learners usually have to actively seek out information from a variety of potential others to determine who is in a position to provide useful information.
Kirsten H Blakey +6 more
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THE CUMULATIVE QUALITY OF CULTURE EXPLAINS HUMAN UNIQUENESS
Zygon, 2023 What explains the unique features of human culture? Culture is not uniquely human, but human culture is uniquely cumulative. Cumulative culture is a product of our collective intelligence and is supported by cognitive processes and learning strategies ...
Cristine H Legare
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Identifying the necessary conditions for large populations to enhance cumulative culture [PDF]
Scientific ReportsLarge populations have the potential to enhance cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) by increasing access to better-adapted solutions and providing more diverse inputs for recombination. However, evidence for this population size hypothesis is mixed: some
Bradley Walker, Nicolas Fay
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Hunter-gatherer inter-band interaction rates: implications for cumulative culture. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Our species exhibits spectacular success due to cumulative culture. While cognitive evolution of social learning mechanisms may be partially responsible for adaptive human culture, features of early human social structure may also play a role by ...
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Innovation and cumulative culture through tweaks and leaps in online programming contests [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 The cumulative development of culture has proven difficult to study in the laboratory. Here, the authors examine entries to a series of large programming contests to show that successful entries are usually ‘tweaks’ of existing solutions, but occasional ‘
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Cumulative culture can emerge from collective intelligence in animal groups [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 Groups of animals tend to solve tasks better than individuals, but it is unclear whether such socially-derived knowledge accumulates over time. Sasaki and Biro demonstrate that homing pigeon flocks progressively improve the efficiency of their routes by ...
Takao Sasaki, Dora Biro
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