Analogy as a Catalyst for Cumulative Cultural Evolution
dc.contributor.author | Brand, CO | |
dc.contributor.author | Mesoudi, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Smaldino, PE | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-21T12:10:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-03-23 | |
dc.description.abstract | Analogies, broadly defined, map novel concepts onto familiar concepts, making them essential for perception, reasoning, and communication. We argue that analogy-building served a critical role in the evolution of cumulative culture by allowing humans to learn and transmit complex behavioural sequences that would otherwise be too cognitively demanding or opaque to acquire. The emergence of a protolanguage consisting of simple labels would have provided early humans with the cognitive tools to build explicit analogies and to communicate them to others. This focus on analogy-building can shed new light on the coevolution of cognition and culture and addresses recent calls for better integration of the field of cultural evolution with cognitive science. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 23 March 2021 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.tics.2021.03.002 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/125410 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021. This version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 | en_GB |
dc.subject | analogy-building | en_GB |
dc.subject | language | en_GB |
dc.subject | protolanguage | en_GB |
dc.subject | cognition | en_GB |
dc.subject | culture | en_GB |
dc.subject | evolution | en_GB |
dc.title | Analogy as a Catalyst for Cumulative Cultural Evolution | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-04-21T12:10:24Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1364-6613 | |
dc.description | This is the author's accepted manuscript, the final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-03-01 | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-03-01 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-04-21T12:06:26Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-04-21T12:10:40Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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