Innovation and cumulative culture through tweaks and leaps in online programming contests
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04494-0
Abstract: The ability to build progressively on the achievements of earlier generations is central to human uniqueness, but experimental investigations of this cumulative cultural evolution lack real-world complexity. Here, we studied the dynamics of cumulative culture… read more here.
Keywords: programming contests; innovation cumulative; cumulative culture; culture ... See more keywords
The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0306
Abstract: Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, and Sea Mammal Research Unit, Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St Andrews,… read more here.
Keywords: cumulative culture; culture animals; knowledge cumulative; university ... See more keywords
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0308
Abstract: Recent studies in several taxa have demonstrated that animal culture can evolve to become more efficient in various contexts ranging from tool use to route learning and migration. Under recent definitions, such increases in efficiency… read more here.
Keywords: across species; cumulative culture; culture; cce ... See more keywords
Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0311
Abstract: Cumulative cultural evolution (CCE)—defined as the process by which beneficial modifications are culturally transmitted and progressively accumulated over time—has long been argued to underlie the unparalleled diversity and complexity of human culture. In this paper,… read more here.
Keywords: cce; exploitation natural; cumulative culture; natural phenomena ... See more keywords
The origins of human cumulative culture: from the foraging niche to collective intelligence
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0317
Abstract: Various studies have investigated cognitive mechanisms underlying culture in humans and other great apes. However, the adaptive reasons for the evolution of uniquely sophisticated cumulative culture in our species remain unclear. We propose that the… read more here.
Keywords: cumulative culture; culture; culture foraging; collective intelligence ... See more keywords
Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256605
Abstract: Human learners are rarely the passive recipients of valuable social information. Rather, learners usually have to actively seek out information from a variety of potential others to determine who is in a position to provide… read more here.
Keywords: information; information seeking; cumulative culture; development strategic ... See more keywords