The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines

Whiten, Andrew; Biro, Dora; Bredeche, Nicolas; Garland, Ellen Clare; Kirby, Simon

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31/01/2022

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Abstract

The goal of this themed issue and the associated Royal Society and British Acad- emy joint Discussion Meeting is to advance, and bridge between, two topics and their respective research fields that have burgeoned in recent years, although to date they have often done so quite separately.

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Whiten , A , Biro , D , Bredeche , N , Garland , E C & Kirby , S 2022 , ' The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines ' , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol. 377 , no. 1843 , 20200306 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0306

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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Non peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0306

ISSN

0962-8436

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Journal article

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Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.

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For financial support during the preparation of this manuscript, D.B. thanks the Templeton World Charity Foundation's ‘Diverse Intelligences’ scheme (grant no. TWCF0316), N.B. the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (grant no. ANR-18-CE33-0006), E.C.G. the Royal Society (Royal Society University Research Fellowship (F160081), and S.K. the ESRC (ES/R011869/1).

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University of St Andrews Research

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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2022/377/1843

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10023/24526