Taking into account the wider evolutionary context of cumulative cultural evolution

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43 (2020)
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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 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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