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Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: Exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children (2017)
Journal Article
McGuigan, N., Burdett, E., Burgess, V., Dean, L., Lucas, A., Vale, G., & Whiten, A. (2017). Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: Exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 372(1735), Article 20160425. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0425

© 2017 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. The experimental study of cumulative culture and the innovations essential to it is a young science, with child studies so rare that the scope of cumulative cultural capacities... Read More about Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: Exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children.

A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture (2017)
Journal Article
Burdett, E. R. R., Dean, L. G., & Ronfard, S. (2018). A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 9(4), 807-818. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-017-0345-4

© 2017, The Author(s). Human culture is uniquely complex compared to other species. This complexity stems from the accumulation of culture over time through high- and low-fidelity transmission and innovation. One possible reason for why humans retain... Read More about A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture.