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Henrich, Heyes and Tomasello on the cognitive foundations of cultural evolution

2021-04-27

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<p>We give a brief overview of three accounts of the cognitive abilities that facilitated the emergence and transmission of cumulative culture in the recent hominin lineage. These accounts were developed by Joseph Henrich (e.g. 2016), Cecilia Heyes (e.g. 2018), and Michael Tomasello (e.g. 1999, 2008, 2014) in collaboration with others. We pay particular attention to the different abilities that these authors think...

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Literature Corpus work: 49e3b016-b918-5d87-aa1c-aa465ff1f7f8
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/a2yqr

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