An experiment in which researchers wanted to examine the role of teaching and communication in the transmission of toolmaking.
Concept: Teaching
Students explore the concept of cultural evolution by comparing it to genetic evolution based on a number of concepts, and explore why cultural evolution
Stories of lost explorers that tell us about the importance of cultural knowledge to our survival.
A reading text about the importance of cumulative culture in our everyday experience and in the evolution of our species
A reading text and causal mapping tasks on the (co)evolution of brain size, childhood, premature birth, cooperative childcare and social learning and teaching
A series of experiments to explore the tendency to imitate in children and chimpanzees
This video is about a bicycle that works differently than normal bicycles, and how challenging it is for our minds to learn how to
