The complexity of Stone Age tool-making is assumed to have relied upon cultural
transmission, but direct evidence is lacking. This paper reviews evidence bearing on this …

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and
language to science and technology. How did the human mind—and the uniquely human …

How did the human mind evolve? How and when did we come to think in the ways we do?
The last thirty years have seen an explosion in research related to the brain and cognition …

Hominin reliance on Oldowan stone tools—which appear from 2.5 mya and are believed to
have been socially transmitted—has been hypothesized to have led to the evolution of …

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

Culture suffuses all aspects of human life. It shapes our minds and bodies and has provided
a cumulative inheritance of knowledge, skills, institutions, and artifacts that allows us to truly …

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

We have learned much about tool use in nonhumans since the discovery of Oldowan stone
tools. Despite the ongoing debate over whether tool use in other animals requires cultural …

Teaching is present in all human societies, while within other species it is very limited.
Something happened during the evolution of Homo sapiens that also made us Homo …

For many years, intuition and common sense often guided the transference of patterning
ostensibly evident in experimental flintknapping results to interpretations of the …