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- Title
From individual cognition to populational culture.
- Authors
Vaesen, Krist
- Abstract
In my response to the commentaries from a collection of esteemed researchers, I reassess and eventually find largely intact my claim that human tool use evidences higher social and non-social cognitive ability. Nonetheless, I concede that my examination of individual-level cognitive traits does not offer a full explanation of cumulative culture yet. For that, one needs to incorporate them into population-dynamic models of cultural evolution. I briefly describe my current and future work on this.
- Subjects
COGNITION; TOOLS; COGNITIVE ability; POPULATION dynamics; SOCIAL evolution; CULTURE
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 4, p245
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X11002196