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The RATCHETCOG project investigates how cultural knowledge and skills evolve over generations in humans compared to nonhuman species. It employs experimental methods to explore cognitive differences across primates, children, and adults, aiming to uncover the mechanisms behind cumulative cultural evolution.
In human populations, skills and knowledge accumulate over generations, giving rise to behaviours and technologies far more complex than any single individual could achieve alone.
This ratchet-like property of human culture appears absent in nonhuman species, as socially transmitted behaviours in animal populations are generally no more complex than those that can be acquired by trial and error.
Scientists from a wide range of disciplines have offered high-profile speculative theories about the…
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