The evolved apprentice. How evolution made humans unique

By Mirko Farina. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2012

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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The burden of proof for a cultural group selection account (2014, background): “& Tomasello, M. (2009) Ratcheting up the ratchet: On the evolution of cumulative culture.”
Learning in Lithic Landscapes: A Reconsideration of the Hominid “Toolmaking” Niche (2014, background): “These propositions were employed to great effect by Sterelny (2012) in his hypothesis about the evolution of learning environments and rich information transmission within the hominid lineage.”
Guided Play: Where Curricular Goals Meet a Playful Pedagogy (2013, background): “…people’s actions within the setting, enabling certain sorts of attitudes and reactive strategies to come to the fore (for related concepts, see broken windows theory, Kelling & Wilson, 1982; niche construction in human cognitive evolution, Sterelny, 2012; the Lucifer effect, Zimbardo, 2007).”
Scaffoldings of the affective mind (2015, background): “Moreover, in the human case, environmental scaffolding exerts its influence across generations in a particularly profound way, via the transmission of ecological and technical expertise (what Sterelny, 2012 calls “intergenerational social learning”).”
Ecological Inheritance and Cultural Inheritance: What Are They and How Do They Differ? (2011, background): “…habitat modification, from digging ditches to climate change, are the products or by-products of cultural knowledge, acquired and socially transmitted by humans and expressed in their use of technology and engineering (Laland and O’Brien 2012, this issue; Smith 2012, this issue; Sterelny 2012).”