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Experiment on the the co-evolution of tool making, teaching, and language

An experiment in which researchers wanted to examine the role of teaching and communication in the transmission of toolmaking.

Scaffold and ensure adaptive understandings of moral psychology

Humans across cultures and from early in childhood display a diversity of often strong moral beleifs and related actions in the world. Understanding the

Morgan, T. J. H., Uomini, N. T., Rendell, L. E., Chouinard-Thuly, L., Street, S. E., Lewis, H. M., … Laland, K. N. (2015). Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language. Nature Communications, 6, 1–8. http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7029

Fröhlich, M., & van Schaik, C. P. (2020). Must all signals be evolved? A proposal for a new classification of communicative acts. WIREs Cognitive Science. doi:10.1002/wcs.1527

OpenEvo is an educational innovation project from the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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