Where does the elephant come from? The evolution of causal cognition is the key

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43 (2020)
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Osiurak and Reynaud do not explain the evolutionary emergence and development of the elephant in the room, that is, technical cognition. We first argue that there is a tight correlation between the evolution of cumulative technological culture and the evolution of reasoning about abstract forces. Second, intentional teaching plays a greater role in CTC evolution than acknowledged in the target article.

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Peter Gärdenfors
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