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. 2012 Aug;35(4):220-1.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X11001877. Epub 2012 Jun 15.

Tool innovation may be a critical limiting step for the establishment of a rich tool-using culture: a perspective from child development

Sarah R Beck  1 , Jackie Chappell, Ian A Apperly, Nicola Cutting
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Tool innovation may be a critical limiting step for the establishment of a rich tool-using culture: a perspective from child development

Sarah R Beck et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2012 Aug.
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Recent data show that human children (up to 8 years old) perform poorly when required to innovate tools. Our tool-rich culture may be more reliant on social learning and more limited by domain-general constraints such as ill-structured problem solving than otherwise thought.

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