Materials for creating a causal map on the relationships between human behaviors, technologies, institutions, social and natural environments
TeachingBase Type: Worksheet
An experiment in which researchers wanted to examine the role of teaching and communication in the transmission of toolmaking.
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 series of experiments to explore the tendency to imitate in children and chimpanzees
The bonobo Kanzi was taught to make and use simple stone tools of the Oldowan culture. What can we conclude about the mental abilities
A reading text about tool use and tool making in the animal kingdom and in our early ancestors
A worksheet in which students calculate and graph the changes in the frequencies of traits related to cooperative foraging in a population over several
A fill in the blanks activity on the natural selection of traits that enabled cooperative foraging in our ancestors
A series of experiments with small children and chimpanzees to investigate their ability and motivation to engage in collaborative activities
