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- Title
Childhood and advances in human tool use.
- Authors
Nielsen, Mark
- Abstract
Human life history incorporates childhood, a lengthy post-weaning period of dependency. This species-specific period provides an opportunity for extensive learning and for sophisticated cultural behaviors to develop, including crucial tool use skills. Although I agree that no individual cognitive trait singularly differentiates humans from other animals, I suggest here that without childhood, the traits that are key to human tool use would not emerge.
- Subjects
TOOLS; CHILDREN; LIFE history theory; LEARNING ability; CULTURE; COGNITIVE ability; HUMAN beings
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 4, p232
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X11001932