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Explores the influence of population rates on the ability to transmit cultural information and the role of cognition in this process.
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Why is it important?
The role of the brain and cognition have tended to be downgraded by recent research into the influence of population rates on material complexity. This paper seeks to redress the balance by showing how cognition continues to be relevant from the perspective of neural plasticity.
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The motivation for this paper was driven by the need to assimilate divergent approaches to the controversy regarding the relationship between cultural complexity, population rates, the brain and cognition.
Derek Hodgson
University of York
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This page is a summary of: Cognitive Evolution, Population, Transmission, and Material Culture, Biological Theory, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s13752-012-0074-y.
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