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

Since the discovery of mirror neurons in the 1990s, many neuroimaging studies have
tackled the issue of action observation with the aim of unravelling a putative homolog human …

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

People are ambivalently enthusiastic and anxious about how far technology can go.
Therefore, understanding the neurocognitive bases of the human technical mind should be …

Most recent research highlights how a specific form of causal understanding, namely
technical reasoning, may support the increasing complexity of tools and techniques …

Human technology has evolved in an unparalleled way, allowing us to expand across the
globe. One fascinating question is, how do we understand the cognitive origins of this …

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 …

Although evidence of teaching behaviour has been identified in some nonhuman species,
human teaching appears to be unique in terms of both the breadth of contexts within which it …

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 …