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The Mystery of Cumulative Culture
Human demographic and ecological success is frequently attributed to our capacity for cumulative culture, which allows human knowledge and technology to build up and improve over time. Yet it remains a mystery why other...
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The Mystery of Cumulative Culture is an episode from New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution by Oxford University. Human demographic and ecological success is frequently attributed to our capacity for cumulative cul...
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Published Aug 22, 2011, 54:14 long, audio available.
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