Cumulative culture, archaeology, and the zone of latent solutions

K Sterelny, P Hiscock - Current Anthropology, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper begins with an analysis of Tennie's account of hominin culture: the claims that
cumulative culture depends on a distinctive form of social learning; that that form of social …

[HTML][HTML] Preschool children's use of perceptual-motor knowledge and hierarchical representational skills for tool making

G Gönül, E Takmaz, A Hohenberger - Acta Psychologica, 2021 - Elsevier
Although other animals can make simple tools, the expanded and complex material culture
of humans is unprecedented in the animal kingdom. Tool making is a slow and late …

Content-dependent biases in social learning strategies: a multiscale approach

S Carrignon - 2019 - dialnet.unirioja.es
The content of what we learn shapes the evolution of human culture and society. In this
thesis, we have quantified the influence of content-dependent biases in social learning …