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Taking into account the wider evolutionary context of cumulative cultural evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2020

Nicolas Claidière Open the ORCID record for Nicolas Claidière [Opens in a new window]
Nicolas Claidière*
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Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LPC UMR 7290, 13331 Marseille, France. nicolas.claidiere@normalesup.orghttp://www.nicolas.claidiere.fr
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Abstract

The target article reviews evidence showing that technological reasoning is crucial to cumulative technological culture but it fails to discuss the implications for the emergence of cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) in general. The target article supports the social view of CCE against the more ecological alternative and suggests that CCE appears when specialised individual-learning mechanisms evolve.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e160
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