Human major transitions from the perspective of distributed adaptations
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0401
Abstract: Distributed adaptations are cases in which adaptation is dependent on the population as a whole: the adaptation is conferred by a structural or compositional aspect of the population; the adaptively relevant information cannot be reduced… read more here.
Keywords: adaptations human; human major; major transitions; transitions perspective ... See more keywords
Communication for collaborative computation: two major transitions in human evolution
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0404
Abstract: This paper presents and defends the following theoretical arguments: (1) The uniqueness of the human condition lies in the fact that only humans engage in collaborative computation, where different individuals work together on shared computational… read more here.
Keywords: computation; communication; human evolution; major transitions ... See more keywords