Digital media have today an enormous diffusion, and their influence on the behavior of a
vast part of the human population can hardly be underestimated. In this review I propose that …

Extant primates, especially chimpanzees, are often used as models for pre-modern hominin
(henceforth: hominin) behaviour, anatomy and cognition. In particular, as hominin behaviour …

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

The zone of latent solutions (ZLS) hypothesis provides an alternative approach to explaining
cultural patterns in primates and many other animals. According to the ZLS hypothesis, non …

Early stone tool production, or knapping, techniques are claimed to be the earliest evidence
for cultural transmission in the human lineage. Previous experimental studies have trained …

Cumulative culture has been claimed a hallmark of human evolution. Yet, the uniqueness of
human culture is heavily debated. The zone of latent solutions hypothesis states that only …

In 2009, Tennie and colleagues published their controversial Zone of Latent Solutions (ZLS)
hypothesis, which argued that certain species' cultural behaviors represent traits that each …

Following the literature, children younger than 8 years rarely innovate a tool. Theories on
innovation and comparative research on tool manufacturing suggest that children's …

Modern human technological culture depends on social learning. A widespread assumption
for chimpanzee tool-use cultures is that they, too, are dependent on social learning …

Executive functions (EF) are a core aspect of cognition. Research with adult humans has
produced evidence for unity and diversity in the structure of EF. Studies with preschoolers …