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A cognitive approach to cumulative technological culture is useful and necessary but only if it also applies to other species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2020

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Thibaud Gruber*
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Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, 1202Geneva, Switzerland. thibaud.gruber@unige.chhttps://www.unige.ch/fapse/neuroemo/people/faculty/dr-thibaud-gruber
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Abstract

The debate on cumulative technological culture (CTC) is dominated by social-learning discussions, at the expense of other cognitive processes, leading to flawed circular arguments. I welcome the authors' approach to decouple CTC from social-learning processes without minimizing their impact. Yet, this model will only be informative to understand the evolution of CTC if tested in other cultural species.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e165
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