Taking into account the wider evolutionary context of cumulative cultural evolution

The target article reviews evidence showing that technological reasoning is crucial to cumulative technological culture but it fails to discuss the implications for the emergence of cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) in general. The target article supports the social view of CCE against the more ec...

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Published inThe Behavioral and brain sciences Vol. 43; p. e160
Main Author Claidière, Nicolas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.01.2020
Subjects
Communication
Cooperation
Cultural transmission
Evolution
Hypotheses
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Summary:The target article reviews evidence showing that technological reasoning is crucial to cumulative technological culture but it fails to discuss the implications for the emergence of cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) in general. The target article supports the social view of CCE against the more ecological alternative and suggests that CCE appears when specialised individual-learning mechanisms evolve.
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ISSN:0140-525X
1469-1825
1469-1825
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X20000254