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- Title
Human tool-making capacities reflect increased information-processing capacities: Continuity resides in the eyes of the beholder.
- Authors
Gibson, Kathleen R.
- Abstract
Chimpanzee/human technological differences are vast, reflect multiple interacting behavioral processes, and may result from the increased information-processing and hierarchical mental constructional capacities of the human brain. Therefore, advanced social, technical, and communicative capacities probably evolved together in concert with increasing brain size. Interpretations of these evolutionary and species differences as continuities or discontinuities reflect differing scientific perspectives.
- Subjects
TOOLS; CONTINUITY; CHIMPANZEES; HUMAN behavior; SIZE of brain; INFORMATION processing
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 4, p225
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X11002007