The cultural evolution of socially situated cognition

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 104-114

  Gabora, Liane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acquired traits; Autopoiesis; Cultural evolution; Natural selection; Self replication; Social learning

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL SITUATED COGNITION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GESTURE; HUMAN; IMITATION; INHERITANCE; LANGUAGE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ACTUALIZATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

EID: 44249125007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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