Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

By Claudio Tennie, J. Call, Michael Tomasello. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2012, background): “Thus, two decades of experimental research have shown that human children have a much stronger tendency than do other apes to copy the actual actions they observe (Tennie, Call, and Tomasello 2009a).”
Emulation, imitation, over-imitation and the scope of culture for child and chimpanzee (2009, background): “…AND OTHER ANIMALS In a previous paper (Hopper et al. 2007), we conceptualized the results of our diffusion experiments in terms of learning thresholds, shown in simple diagrammatic form in figure 3, partly to facilitate engagement with a 'partner' paper 1 in the present issue (Tennie et al. 2009).”
Reply to comments. Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation: The Interdependence Hypothesis (2012, background): “Thus, two decades of experimental research have shown that human children have a much stronger tendency than do other apes to copy the actual actions they observe (Tennie, Call, and Tomasello 2009a).”
Biosocial Construction of Sex Differences and Similarities in Behavior (2012, positive): “By building on the early development of a theory of mind, even young children become skilled at anticipating others' reactions (Tennie et al., 2009).”
How to learn about teaching: An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching behavior in humans and other animals. (2014, background): “1993), leading to a more sophisticated understanding of why humans alone have cumulative culture (e.g., Enquist & Ghirlanda 2007; Tennie et al. 2009).”
Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity (2014, background): “Social tolerance and cooperation, in turn, appear to be necessary to another notable aspect of human behavior—our extraordinary capacity for cumulative technological evolution (CTE), or “cultural ratcheting” (Tennie, Call, and Tomasello 2009).”
The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation (2011, background): “However, in every case, the traditions involve behaviors that individuals can and do learn on their own, or combine a handful of elements learned by multiple individuals (23).”
An Evolutionary Anthropological Perspective on Modern Human Origins (2015, background): “…of learned information regularly occurs, these modifications can be transmitted, and this process is essential for cumulative culture (Boyd et al 2011), and the build-up in the complexity of information, behaviors, cultural characteristics, and technologies (the ratchet) (Tennie et al 2009).”
Teaching Is a Natural Cognitive Ability for Humans (2012, background): “It is cumulative in the sense that Tennie, Call, and Tomasello (2009) suggested with the ‘‘ratchet’’ metaphor.”