Where does the elephant come from? The evolution of causal cognition is the key
(2020) In The Behavioral and brain sciences 43.- Abstract
Osiurak and Reynaud do not explain the evolutionary emergence and development of the elephant in the room, that is, technical cognition. We first argue that there is a tight correlation between the evolution of cumulative technological culture (CTC) and the evolution of reasoning about abstract forces. Second, intentional teaching plays a greater role in CTC evolution than acknowledged in the target article.
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- Gärdenfors, Peter LU ; Högberg, Anders LU and Lombard, Marlize
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- 2020
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- The Behavioral and brain sciences
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- 43
- article number
- e164
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- Cambridge University Press
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- scopus:85089320210
- pmid:32772992
- ISSN
- 1469-1825
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0140525X20000059
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- English
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- 1bbfa939-4e5f-45ed-ac56-0e666a3d464c
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