Evolution and Social Cognition

Most sophisticated technologies (e.g. the bicycle) have been developed through a cumulative culture. Indeed, complex technologies result from the accumulation of many, mostly small improvements made across generations. Even more striking: causal understanding of their mechanisms are not required to improve their performance across time, cultural transmission alone is sufficient to explain the increase in performance of technology. These are the latest results from Maxime Derex who presented his latest paper in Journal Club this week.
His paper: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/36386/Derex_etal_preprint.pdf?sequence=1

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