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SCOPE: The Generative Architecture of Cultural Learning

2026-05-25

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<p>Humans transform observations into increasingly complex tools, practices, and ideas. Social learning (SL) research has explained this capacity using familiar constructs such as imitation, emulation, overimitation, teaching, and innovation. This focus has been productive, but it leaves a central puzzle unresolved: populations that share many learning capacities nevertheless differ sharply in cultural accumulatio...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/9db5a_v1

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