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 …

A prerequisite for copying innovative behaviour faithfully is the capacity of observers' brains,
regarded as 'hierarchically mechanistic minds', to overcome cognitive 'surprisal'(see 2.), by …

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 …

Linking the likelihood of convergent evolution to the technologies' complexity, this paper
identifies the scales of technological diffusion and convergence, ie, the evolving of structures …

In a recent paper in Nature Human Behaviour, Koops et al.(2022) argued that unlike most
other chimpanzee “know-how”, nut-cracking falls outside the zone of latent solutions (ZLS) …

The Oldowan represents the earliest recurrent evidence of human material culture and one
of the longest-lasting forms of technology. Its appearance across the African continent amid …

The origin of human cumulative culture is commonly envisioned as the appearance (some
2.0–2.5 million years ago) of a capacity to faithfully copy the know-how that underpins …

Seasonality is a critical driver of resource availability within individual generations and is
therefore likely to have exerted selective pressures on hominin evolution. Nonetheless, it …

It is widely believed that human culture originated in the appearance of Oldowan stone-tool
production (circa 2.9 Mya) and a primitive but effective ability to copy detailed know-how …

Cumulative culture, the accumulation of modifications, innovations, and improvements over
generations through social learning, is a key determinant of the behavioral diversity across …