Our species has the peculiar ability to accumulate cultural innovations over multiple
generations, a phenomenon termed 'cumulative cultural evolution'(CCE). Recent years have …

Human societies are collective brains. People within every society have cultural brains—
brains that have evolved to selectively seek out adaptive knowledge and socially transmit …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

The ability to build upon previous knowledge—cumulative cultural evolution—is a hallmark
of human societies. While cumulative cultural evolution depends on the interaction between …

Is technological advancement constrained by biases in human cognition? People in all
societies build on discoveries inherited from previous generations, leading to cumulative …

Culture, defined as socially transmitted information and behaviors that are shared in groups
and persist over time, is increasingly accepted to occur across a wide range of taxa and …

In the current literature, there are few experimental tests of capacities for cumulative cultural
evolution in nonhuman species. There are even fewer examples of such tests in young …

Cultural evolution relies on the social transmission of cultural traits along a population's
social network. Research indicates that network structure affects information spread and …

Collective intelligence, broadly conceived, refers to the adaptive behavior achieved by
groups through the interactions of their members, often involving phenomena such as …

Humans can follow different social learning strategies, sometimes oriented toward the
models' characteristics (ie, who-strategies). The goal of the present study was to explore …