Ethnoscientific expertise and knowledge specialisation in 55 traditional cultures

People everywhere acquire high levels of conceptual knowledge about their social and natural worlds, which we refer to as ethnoscientific expertise. Evolutionary explanations for expertise are still widely debated. We analysed ethnographic text records (N = 547) describing ethnoscientific expertise...

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Main Authors: Aaron D. Lightner, Cynthiann Heckelsmiller, Edward H. Hagen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2021-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Human Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513843X21000311/type/journal_article