Cumulative cultural evolution (CCE)—defined as the process by which beneficial
modifications are culturally transmitted and progressively accumulated over time—has long …

The dominant view of cumulative technological culture suggests that high-fidelity
transmission rests upon a high-fidelity copying ability, which allows individuals to reproduce …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

The capacity of Homo sapiens for the intergenerational accumulation of complex
technologies, practices, and beliefs is central to contemporary accounts of human …

Understanding the evolution of human technology is key to solving the mystery of our
origins. Current theories propose that technology evolved through the accumulation of …

Cumulative technological culture can be defined as the progressive diversification,
complexification, and enhancement of technological traits through generations. An …

In the current literature, there are few experimental tests of capacities for cumulative cultural
evolution in nonhuman species. There are even fewer examples of such tests in young …

Humans can follow different social learning strategies, sometimes oriented toward the
models' characteristics (ie, who-strategies). The goal of the present study was to explore …

Cumulative technological culture is an intriguing phenomenon whose cognitive bases
remain a matter of debate. For the influential shared-intentionality theory, this phenomenon …

While widely acknowledged in the cultural evolution literature, ecological factors—aspects of
the physical environment that affect the way in which cultural productions evolve—have not …