Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciencesHumansCultural EvolutionCooperative BehaviorInformation DisseminationSocial Learning
From information free-riding to information sharing: how have humans solved the cooperative dilemma at the heart of cumulative cultural evolution?
Alex Mesoudi, Ángel Jiménez, Keith Jensen, Lei Chang
Published: 202510.1098/rstb.2024.0258
Abstract
Cumulative cultural evolution, where populations accumulate ever-improving knowledge, technologies and social customs, is arguably a unique feature of human sociality and responsible for our species' ecological dominance of the planet. However, at th…
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