The cultural evolution of teaching

Teaching is an important process of cultural transmission. Some have argued that human teaching is a cognitive instinct – a form of ‘natural cognition’ centred on mindreading, shaped by genetic evolution for the education of juveniles, and with a normative developmental trajectory driven by the unfo...

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Main Authors: Eva Brandl, Ruth Mace, Cecilia Heyes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2023-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Human Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513843X23000142/type/journal_article