Culture shapes the evolution of cognition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 4530-4535

  Thompson, Bill ^a,b   Kirby, Simon ^b   Smith, Kenny ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Evolution; Language; Nativism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE BIAS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGENY; SOCIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

COGNITION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE;

EID: 84964322212     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1523631113     Document Type: Article

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