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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.

Diagram with results of the imitation experiment

Imitation in chimps and children (Video, Experiment)

A series of experiments to explore the tendency to imitate in children and chimpanzees

Evolutionary Anthropology in the Primary School

Evolutionary Anthropology in the Primary School – a pre-service primary teacher module

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

Horner, V., & Whiten, A. (2005). Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens). Animal Cognition, 8(3), 164–181. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-004-0239-6

Derex, M., Bonnefon, J. F., Boyd, R., & Mesoudi, A. (2019). Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(5), 446–452. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0567-9

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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