Identification of the social and cognitive processes underlying human cumulative culture

Science

Volumn 335, Issue 6072, 2012, Pages 1114-1118

  Dean, L G ^a   Kendal, R L ^b   Schapiro, S J ^c   Thierry, B ^d   Laland, K N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HOMINID; IMITATION; KNOWLEDGE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEBUS; CHILD; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CEBUS; PAN;

EID: 84857681852     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1213969     Document Type: Article

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