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Comment
. 2015:38:e47.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X1400079X.

Cooperation in human teaching

Ann Cale Kruger  1
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Cooperation in human teaching

Ann Cale Kruger. Behav Brain Sci. 2015.

Abstract

Kline's evolutionary analysis of teaching provides welcome reframing for cross-species comparisons. However, theory based on competition cannot explain the transmission of human cultural elements that were collectively created. Humans evolved in a cultural niche and teaching-learning coevolved to transmit culture. To study human cultural variation in teaching, we need a more articulated theory of this distinctively human engagement.

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