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Cognitive requirements of cumulative culture: teaching is useful but not essential

The cumulative nature of human culture is unique in the animal kingdom. Progressive improvements in tools and technologies have facilitated humanity’s spread across the globe and shaped human evolution, but the cognitive mechanisms enabling cultural change remain unclear. Here we show that, contrary...

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Autores principales: Zwirner, Elena, Thornton, Alex
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4660383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26606853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep16781