Can Other People Make You Less Creative?

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<p>Although it is sometimes assumed that creativity is good and therefore, the more creativity the better, an evolutionary perspective suggests that this is not always the case. Creativity is the process that generates cultural novelty, and human culture – like all evolutionary processes – requires a balance between the generation of new outputs, and the perpetuation of successful previous outputs. This paper prov...

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• Biological Evolution
• Culture
• Evolution, Molecular
• Gene-Environment Interaction
• Models, Theoretical
• Phenotype
• Selection, Genetic
• Social Environment

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Literature Corpus work

51e5d24a-6489-5f6c-b350-889117ecef35

DOI

10.31234/osf.io/m7gyu