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Refining our understanding of the “elephant in the room”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2020

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Andrew Whiten*
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Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St AndrewsKY16 9JP, UK. a.whiten@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Abstract

The authors do the field of cultural evolution a service by exploring the role of non-social cognition in human cumulative technological culture, truly neglected in comparison with socio-cognitive abilities frequently assumed to be the primary drivers. Some specifics of their delineation of the critical factors are problematic, however. I highlight recent chimpanzee–human comparative findings that should help refine such analyses.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e182
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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