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Comment
. 2020 Aug 10:43:e174.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20000060.

A long view of cumulative technological culture

Michael J O'Brien  1 , R Alexander Bentley  2
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A long view of cumulative technological culture

Michael J O'Brien et al. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

We agree that the emergence of cumulative technological culture was tied to nonsocial cognitive skills, namely, technical-reasoning skills, which allowed humans to constantly acquire and improve information. Our concern is with a reading of the history of cumulative technological culture that is based largely on modern experiments in simulated settings and less on phenomena crucial to the long-term dynamics of cultural evolution.

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