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. 2012 Aug;35(4):222-3.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X11001889. Epub 2012 Jun 15.

Technological selection: a missing link

Peter B Crabb  1
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Technological selection: a missing link

Peter B Crabb. Behav Brain Sci. 2012 Aug.

Abstract

Vaesen's description of uniquely human tool-related cognitive abilities rings true but would be enhanced by an account of how those abilities would have evolved. I suggest that a process of technological selection operated on the cognitive architecture of ancestral hominids because they, unlike other tool-using species, depended on tools for their survival.

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