Lost explorers
Stories of lost explorers that tell us about the importance of cultural knowledge to our survival.
Human evolution lesson collection
Reading text: Cumulative culture
A reading text about the importance of cumulative culture in our everyday experience and in the evolution of our species
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Causes of our moral intuitions
In this lesson students explore the causes of our moral intuitions with the help of a sorting activity and reflection questions.
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Video, Worksheets: Experiments on the social behavior of babies
Using puppets psychologists explore what small children as young as a few months old think about their social environment and whether they can distinguish between “good” and “bad”.
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Video: the pointing gesture
A video excerpt and worksheet on the importance of pointing gestures in human communication
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Reading text – Baby schema
A reading text on the evolution of the baby schema together with cooperative child care
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Reading text – Evolution of childhood
A reading text and causal mapping tasks on the (co)evolution of brain size, childhood, premature birth, cooperative childcare and social learning and teaching
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Imitation in chimps and children (Video, Experiment)
A series of experiments to explore the tendency to imitate in children and chimpanzees
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Reading text – Brain and coordination of body movements
A reading text on the evolution of left-right handedness and the role of the brain
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Video questions: Breeding foxes and social temperament
This video is about domestication – or “taming by breeding” – of foxes, a Russian research project that has been conducted since the 1950s. It shows which behavioral patterns of foxes were selected during breeding, what was found out about the genetic makeup underlying these patterns of behavior and to what extent fox breeding is comparable to the breeding of dogs.
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