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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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Variant at serotonin transporter gene predicts increased imitation in toddlers: relevance to the human capacity for cumulative culture [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2016 Kari Britt Schroeder +2 more
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Human Teaching and Cumulative Cultural Evolution [PDF]
Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2017 Although evidence of teaching behaviour has been identified in some nonhuman species, human teaching appears to be unique in terms of both the breadth of contexts within which it is observed, and in its responsiveness to needs of the learner. Similarly, cultural evolution is observable in other species, but human cultural evolution appears strikingly ...
Caldwell, Christine Anna +2 more
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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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A paradox of cumulative culture
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2015 Culture can grow cumulatively if socially learnt behaviors are improved by individual learning before being passed on to the next generation. Previous authors showed that this kind of learning strategy is unlikely to be evolutionarily stable in the presence of a trade-off between learning and reproduction.
Kobayashi, Yutaka +2 more
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Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective [PDF]
Biological Reviews, 2013 ABSTRACTMany animals exhibit social learning and behavioural traditions, but human culture exhibits unparalleled complexity and diversity, and is unambiguously cumulative in character. These similarities and differences have spawned a debate over whether animal traditions and human culture are reliant on homologous or analogous psychological processes.
Dean, L. +4 more
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Analogy as a Catalyst for Cumulative Cultural Evolution
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020 Analogies, broadly defined, map novel concepts onto familiar concepts, making them essential for perception, reasoning, and communication. We argue that analogy-building served a critical role in the evolution of cumulative culture, by allowing humans to learn and transmit complex behavioural sequences that would otherwise be too cognitively demanding ...
Charlotte (Lotty) Brand +2 more
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High selection pressure promotes increase in cumulative adaptive culture. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The evolution of cumulative adaptive culture has received widespread interest in recent years, especially the factors promoting its occurrence. Current evolutionary models suggest that an increase in population size may lead to an increase in cultural ...
Carolin Vegvari, Robert A Foley
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Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Humans have a unique capacity to innovate, transmit and rely on complex, cumulative culture for survival. While an important body of work has attempted to explore the role of changes in the size and interconnectedness of populations in determining the ...
Johannes Zonker +2 more
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The Encultured Primate: Thresholds and Transitions in Hominin Cultural Evolution
Philosophies, 2019 This article tries to shed light on the mystery of human culture. Human beings are the only extant species with cumulative, evolving cultures. Many animal species do have cultural traditions in the form of socially transmitted practices but they ...
Chris Buskes
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