Human culture is uniquely open-ended rather than uniquely cumulative

TJH Morgan, MW Feldman - Nature Human Behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
Theories of how humans came to be so ecologically dominant increasingly centre on the
adaptive abilities of human culture and its capacity for cumulative change and high-fidelity …

The cultural evolution of cultural evolution

J Birch, C Heyes - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
What makes fast, cumulative cultural evolution work? Where did it come from? Why is it the
sole preserve of humans? We set out a self-assembly hypothesis: cultural evolution evolved …

The elephant in the room: What matters cognitively in cumulative technological culture

F Osiurak, E Reynaud - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020 - cambridge.org
Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

[图书][B] The Pleistocene social contract: Culture and cooperation in human evolution

K Sterelny - 2021 - books.google.com
Kim Sterelny here builds on his original account of the evolutionary development and
interaction of human culture and cooperation, which he first presented in The Evolved …

Earliest known Oldowan artifacts at> 2.58 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia, highlight early technological diversity

DR Braun, V Aldeias, W Archer… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The manufacture of flaked stone artifacts represents a major milestone in the technology of
the human lineage. Although the earliest production of primitive stone tools, predating the …

Archaeology and the origins of human cumulative culture: A case study from the earliest Oldowan at Gona, Ethiopia

D Stout, MJ Rogers, AV Jaeggi… - Current …, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
The capacity of Homo sapiens for the intergenerational accumulation of complex
technologies, practices, and beliefs is central to contemporary accounts of human …

Early knapping techniques do not necessitate cultural transmission

WD Snyder, JS Reeves, C Tennie - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Early stone tool production, or knapping, techniques are claimed to be the earliest evidence
for cultural transmission in the human lineage. Previous experimental studies have trained …

Understanding stone tool-making skill acquisition: Experimental methods and evolutionary implications

J Pargeter, N Khreisheh, D Stout - Journal of Human Evolution, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite its theoretical importance, the process of stone tool-making skill acquisition remains
understudied and poorly understood. The challenges and costs of skill learning constitute an …

[图书][B] The evolution of Paleolithic technologies

SL Kuhn - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Imitation and culture: What gives?

C Heyes - Mind & Language, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
What is the relationship between imitation and culture? This article charts how definitions of
imitation have changed in the last century, distinguishes three senses of “culture” used by …