Neuroplasticity enables bio-cultural feedback in Paleolithic stone-tool making

Abstract Stone-tool making is an ancient human skill thought to have played a key role in the bio-cultural co-evolutionary feedback that produced modern brains, culture, and cognition. To test the proposed evolutionary mechanisms underpinning this hypothesis we studied stone-tool making skill learni...

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Main Authors: Erin Elisabeth Hecht, Justin Pargeter, Nada Khreisheh, Dietrich Stout
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29994-y