… a null hypothesis that this technology was passed from hominin brain to brain and from
generation to generation via cultural transmission … resetting the null hypothesis for early stone tool …

… University of Birmingham Resetting the null hypothesis: early stone tools and cultural
transmission … 160 The time seems right to “reset” the null hypothesis for early lithic …

… should be the null hypothesis for the Early Stone Age. Such a null unduly privileges
transmission mechanisms as the explanation for differences in cultural accumulation, distracting …

… a null hypothesis that this technology was passed from hominin brain to brain and from
generation to generation via cultural transmission … resetting the null hypothesis for early stone tool …

… Early stone tool production, or knapping, techniques are claimed to be the earliest evidence
for cultural transmission in the … The puzzle box was also reset and rebaited upon successful …

… nor the stone tool types that may be responsible for early cut … this type of cultural transmission.
This is because not every … new null hypothesis—an alternative model of ‘minimal culture…

… stone tools in order to delineate cultural boundaries and reconstruct mechanisms of cultural
transmission … , for they teach us how cultural evolutionary forces—copying error, intergroup …

… 1 ) history of hominin stone tool making, we arrive at no less than 99.8% of this latest period
of our evolutionary history having been spent in the manufacture of stone tools. Accordingly, …

… cultural diversity, complexity and rates of change in human evolution. Palaeolithic stone tools
… difference arises from the increased fidelity of human cultural transmission [4,6], from the …

… if there is weak cultural transmission of know-how or know-how transmission is totally absent…
, stone tools have alternatively been interpreted as not having required cultural transmission …