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Childhood as a solution to explore–exploit tensions

I argue that the evolution of our life history, with its distinctively long, protected human childhood, allows an early period of broad hypothesis search and exploration, before the demands of goal-directed exploitation set in. This cognitive profile is also found in other animals and is associated...

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Autor principal: Gopnik, Alison
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32475327
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0502