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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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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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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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Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) display limited behavioural flexibility when faced with a changing foraging task requiring tool use [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Behavioural flexibility, the ability to alter behaviour in response to environmental feedback, and to relinquish previously successful solutions to problems, is a crucial ability in allowing organisms to adapt to novel environments and environmental ...
Rachel A. Harrison, Andrew Whiten
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 It is widely believed that human culture originated in the appearance of Oldowan stone-tool production (circa 2.9 Mya) and a primitive but effective ability to copy detailed know-how.
Claes Andersson, Claudio Tennie
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Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual ReviewHumans are one of the most successful species in the planet as we inhabit almost every ecosystem on Earth. This success has been attributed to our cultural proficiency, which allows us to store in the collective minds of our populations complex knowledge
Alba Motes-Rodrigo
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Diabetes mellitus, smoking status, and rate of sputum culture conversion in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a cohort study from the country of Georgia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a risk factor for active tuberculosis (TB) but little is known about the effect of DM on culture conversion among patients with multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB. The primary aim was to estimate the association between DM and rate of
Matthew J Magee +6 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Survivors of pediatric brain tumors (PBTs) can experience long‐term social difficulties, impacting quality of life. Beyond medical and environmental factors, family psychosocial risk may play a role in social outcomes by shaping the caregiving environment and may provide intervention options.
Renske H. Houben +4 more
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Evolutionary Human SciencesLearning is crucial for humans and other animals to acquire knowledge, enhancing survival and reproduction. In particular, individual and social learning allow populations to accumulate knowledge across generations.
Ludovic Maisonneuve, Laurent Lehmann
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Effects of verbal instruction vs. modelling on imitation and overimitation
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 Human culture is the result of a unique cumulative evolutionary process. Despite the importance of culture for our species the social transmission mechanisms underlying this process are still not fully understood.
Aliki Papa +3 more
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