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A long view of cumulative technological culture
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020AbstractWe agree that the emergence of cumulative technological culture was tied to nonsocial cognitive skills, namely, technical-reasoning skills, which allowed humans to constantly acquire and improve information. Our concern is with a reading of the history of cumulative technological culture that is based largely on modern experiments in simulated ...
Michael J. O'Brien, R. Alexander Bentley
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Evolution of improvement and cumulative culture
Theoretical Population Biology, 2013Humans have created highly developed cultures, brought about by iterative improvements in technology. Using a mathematical model, I investigated the conditions under which cultural traits tend to be improved for a higher level of culture to evolve.
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Science, 2012
Why does human culture accumulate, but that of other species do not?
Robert Kurzban, H. Clark Barrett
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Why does human culture accumulate, but that of other species do not?
Robert Kurzban, H. Clark Barrett
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Learning and Motivation, 2012
Abstract Cumulative culture denotes the, arguably, human capacity to build on the cultural behaviors of one's predecessors, allowing increases in cultural complexity to occur such that many of our cultural artifacts, products and technologies have progressed beyond what a single individual could invent alone.
Emma Flynn
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Abstract Cumulative culture denotes the, arguably, human capacity to build on the cultural behaviors of one's predecessors, allowing increases in cultural complexity to occur such that many of our cultural artifacts, products and technologies have progressed beyond what a single individual could invent alone.
Emma Flynn
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The effect of cultural interaction on cumulative cultural evolution
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2014Cultural transmission and cultural evolution are important for animals, especially for humans. I developed a new analytical model of cultural evolution, in which each newborn learns cultural traits from multiple individuals (exemplars) in parental generation, individually explores around learned cultural traits, judges the utility of known cultural ...
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Evolution of cumulative culture for niche construction
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2019A mathematical model of the joint evolution of learning and niche construction in a spatially subdivided population is described, in which culture is used to practice niche construction and can evolve by accumulating small improvements over generations.
Kobayashi, Yutaka +2 more
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2021
Abstract This chapter begins with a discussion of methodological issues about historical reconstruction and scenario-building. To what extent can a theory of the emergence of human social behaviour be empirically constrained? What is known (and what is not known) of the behaviour of early humans?
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Abstract This chapter begins with a discussion of methodological issues about historical reconstruction and scenario-building. To what extent can a theory of the emergence of human social behaviour be empirically constrained? What is known (and what is not known) of the behaviour of early humans?
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Adaptive strategies for cumulative cultural learning
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2012The demographic and ecological success of our species is frequently attributed to our capacity for cumulative culture. However, it is not yet known how humans combine social and asocial learning to generate effective strategies for learning in a cumulative cultural context.
Micael Ehn, Kevin Laland
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Shamanism and the social nature of cumulative culture
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2018AbstractOur species-unique capacity for cumulative culture relies on a complex interplay between social and cognitive motivations. Attempting to understand much of human behaviour will be incomplete if one of these motivations is the focus at the expense of the other.
Nielsen, Mark +2 more
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Cumulation and Cultural Processes*
American Anthropologist, 1954IN SOME statements about the nature of culture, culture is characterized as being cumulative (Goldenweiser 1937:45; Hoijer 1953:556; Kroeber 1948:297; White 1949:374, 398). In other statements only certain aspects of culture are said to be cumulative-e.g., science and technology (Kroeber 1952: 151).
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