Demography and cultural complexity
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This paper begins by calling attention to a puzzling feature of our deep past: an apparent mis-match between morphological evolution in our lineage, including the expansion of our brain and neocortex, and changes in material culture. Three ideas might explain this mis-match. (a) The apparent mis-match is an illusion: change in material culture is indeed driven by biological evolution, but of a kind difficult to identify in the fossil record; (b) the mismatch is caused by the fact that material...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2020-02-27 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/206209 |
Source: | Synthese |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-020-02587-2 |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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