Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective

LG Dean, GL Vale, KN Laland, E Flynn… - Biological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Many animals exhibit social learning and behavioural traditions, but human culture exhibits
unparalleled complexity and diversity, and is unambiguously cumulative in character. These …

Culture and cultural evolution in birds: a review of the evidence

LM Aplin - Animal Behaviour, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Birds can show cultural behaviour across multiple behavioural
contexts.•Evolutionary theory is a useful tool to examine cultural change over time.•I review …

[BOOK][B] Animal tool behavior: the use and manufacture of tools by animals

RW Shumaker, KR Walkup, BB Beck - 2011 - books.google.com
When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to
catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human …

[BOOK][B] Domjan and Burkhard's" The principles of learning and behavior"

M Domjan - 1993 - psycnet.apa.org
The aim of the third edition of this book is... to provide a lucid introduction to contemporary
phenomena and theories about learning and behavior. The book strives to present a …

[CITATION][C] Play, playfulness, creativity, and innovation

P Bateson - 2013 - books.google.com
What role does playful behaviour and playful thought take in animal and human
development? How does play relate to creativity and, in turn, to innovation? Unravelling the …

[BOOK][B] Social zooarchaeology: Humans and animals in prehistory

N Russell - 2011 - books.google.com
This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes
a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis …

[BOOK][B] Ecojustice education: Toward diverse, democratic, and sustainable communities

RA Martusewicz, J Edmundson, J Lupinacci - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
EcoJustice Education offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a
pedagogy of responsibility, providing teachers and teacher educators with the information …

The elephant in the room: What matters cognitively in cumulative technological culture

F Osiurak, E Reynaud - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020 - cambridge.org
Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

Flexibility in problem solving and tool use of kea and New Caledonian crows in a multi access box paradigm

AMI Auersperg, AMP Von Bayern, GK Gajdon, L Huber… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Parrots and corvids show outstanding innovative and flexible behaviour. In particular, kea
and New Caledonian crows are often singled out as being exceptionally sophisticated in …

Technition: When tools come out of the closet

F Osiurak, M Lesourd, J Navarro… - Perspectives on …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
People are ambivalently enthusiastic and anxious about how far technology can go.
Therefore, understanding the neurocognitive bases of the human technical mind should be …