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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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Cumulative culture and complex cultural traditions [PDF]
Mind & Language, 2020 Cumulative cultural evolution is often claimed to be distinctive of human culture. Such claims are typically supported with examples of complex and historically late‐appearing technologies. Yet by taking these as paradigm cases, researchers unhelpfully lump together different ways that culture accumulates.
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Modelling the evolution and diversity of cumulative culture. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2011 Abstract Previous work on mathematical models of cultural evolution has mainly focused on the diffusion of simple cultural elements. However, a characteristic feature of human cultural evolution is the seemingly limitless appearance of new and increasingly complex cultural elements.
Enquist M, Ghirlanda S, Eriksson K.
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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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Cumulative Cultural Evolution and Demography
PLoS ONE, 2012 The idea that demographic change may spur or slow down technological change has become widely accepted among evolutionary archaeologists and anthropologists. Two models have been particularly influential in promoting this idea: a mathematical model by Joseph Henrich, developed to explain the Tasmanian loss of culture during the Holocene; and an agent ...
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Experimental Approaches to Studying Cumulative Cultural Evolution [PDF]
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2016 In humans, cultural traditions often change in ways that increase efficiency and functionality. This process, widely referred to as cumulative cultural evolution, sees beneficial traits preferentially retained, and it is so pervasive that we may be inclined to take it for granted.
Caldwell, Christine Anna +2 more
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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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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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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Fluorescent probes allow dynamic visualization of phosphoinositides in living cells (left), whereas mass spectrometry provides high‐sensitivity, isomer‐resolved quantitation (right). Their synergistic use captures complementary aspects of lipid signaling. This review illustrates how these approaches reveal the spatiotemporal regulation and quantitative
Hiroaki Kajiho +3 more
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