Grade or Expertise Level: 6-8
Workshop: Computersimulationen zu Evolution und Nachhaltigkeit
An experiment in which researchers wanted to examine the role of teaching and communication in the transmission of toolmaking.
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
Using puppets psychologists explore what small children as young as a few months old think about their social environment and whether they can distinguish
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 series of experiments to explore the tendency to imitate in children and chimpanzees
