Supporting the weight of the elephant in the room: Technical intelligence propped up by social cognition and language

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43 (2020)
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We consider the evolutionary plausibility of Osiurak and Reynaud's arguments. We argue that technical reasoning is not quite the magic bullet that O&R assume, and instead propose a co-evolutionary account of the interplay between technical reasoning and social learning, with language emerging as a vital issue neglected in O&R's account.

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