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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 Prepared Core Technologies, often considered a hallmark of the Middle Paleolithic Mousterian, have recently been observed, to some extent, in many late Lower Paleolithic Acheulian sites.
Aviad Agam +6 more
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Entropy, 2022 Some theories propose that human cumulative culture is dependent on explicit, system-2, metacognitive processes. To test this, we investigated whether access to working memory is required for cumulative cultural evolution. We restricted access to adults’
Juliet Dunstone +3 more
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Transmission fidelity is the key to the build-up of cumulative culture [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2012 Kevin N Lala, Hannah M Lewis
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Acquisition of a socially learned tool use sequence in chimpanzees: Implications for cumulative culture [PDF]
Evolution and Human Behavior, 2017 Gillian Vale +2 more
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Runaway Social Selection in Human Evolution
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Darwin posited that social competition among conspecifics could be a powerful selective pressure. Alexander proposed a model of human evolution involving a runaway process of social competition based on Darwin’s insight.
Bernard J. Crespi +2 more
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Modelling the evolution and diversity of cumulative culture [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011 Kimmo Eriksson +2 more
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Evidence for a sex effect during overimitation: boys copy irrelevant modelled actions more than girls across cultures [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Children are skilful at acquiring tool-using skills by faithfully copying relevant and irrelevant actions performed by others, but poor at innovating tools to solve problems. Five- to twelve-year-old urban French and rural Serbian children (N = 208) were
Aurélien Frick +2 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 ...
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Niche Construction, Cumulative Culture and The Social Transmission of Expertise
PaleoAnthropology, 2022 This paper defends the following main claims: (i) in the discussion of cumulative culture, the importance of specific causal recipes has been overstated,and the imortance of broad-channel skills, and skills not tied to specific motor procedures has been
Kim Sterelny
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Open-ended cumulative cultural evolution of Hollywood film crews
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 Are there large-scale trends in art history that surpass individual creativity or relatively short artistic movements? Many theories describe art history as a process similar to a change of fashions, while others suggest that art can be progressive ...
Peeter Tinits, Oleg Sobchuk
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