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TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
卷 24, 期 8, 页码 654-667出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.04.005
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- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (under the Investissement d'Avenir programme) [ANR 17-EURE-0010]
- European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant) [748310]
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [748310] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
Our species has the peculiar ability to accumulate cultural innovations over multiple generations, a phenomenon termed 'cumulative cultural evolution' (CCE). Recent years have seen a proliferation of empirical and theoretical work exploring the inter-play between demography and CCE. This has generated intense discussion about whether demographic models can help explain historical patterns of cultural changes. Here, we synthesize empirical and theoretical studies from multiple fields to highlight how both population size and structure can shape the pool of cultural information that individuals can build upon to innovate, present the potential path-ways through which humans' unique social structure might promote CCE, and dis-cuss whether humans' social networks might partly result from selection pressures linked to our extensive reliance on culturally accumulated knowledge.
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