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Human tool-making capacities reflect increased information-processing capacities: Continuity resides in the eyes of the beholder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2012

Kathleen R. Gibson
Kathleen R. Gibson
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Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas–Houston Medical School, Houston, TX, 77030. kathleen.r.gibson@uth.tmc.edu
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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.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , August 2012 , pp. 225 - 226
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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