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

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Date
31/01/2022
Author
Whiten, Andrew
Biro, Dora
Bredeche, Nicolas
Garland, Ellen Clare
Kirby, Simon
Keywords
Cultural evolution
Cumulative culture
Collective cognition
Collective memory
Social learning
Culture
HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
QH301 Biology
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
T Technology
T-DAS
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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.
Citation
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
Publication
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Status
Non peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0306
ISSN
0962-8436
Type
Journal article
Rights
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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URL
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2022/377/1843
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/24526

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