An experiment in which researchers wanted to examine the role of teaching and communication in the transmission of toolmaking.
Content Anchor: Ancient Ancestors
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.
How can we understand variation in the minds of primates? An Orange-based data exploration.
In this lesson students explore the causes of our moral intuitions with the help of a sorting activity and reflection questions.
A reading text about the challenges of life in groups and how groups across biology have found ways to solve these challenges.
A video excerpt and worksheet on the importance of pointing gestures in human communication
A reading text on the evolution of the baby schema together with cooperative child care
A reading text and causal mapping tasks on the (co)evolution of brain size, childhood, premature birth, cooperative childcare and social learning and teaching
Behavioral science is increasingly considered foundational for addressing various sustainable development challenges. Behavioral change and action competence have also become important goals in Education