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Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language
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“In this regard, the results of our study and other research39 indicate that teaching, especially by means of verbal communication, is the most effective social transmission mechanism for learning lithic knapping, and is especially helpful for acquiring and retaining concepts such as core rotation and turning, using negatives of previous blows as percussion platforms for subsequent extractions.”
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“This would have allowed limited transmission among individuals maintaining long-term duration contacts, but would restrict the emergence of innovations and the dissemination speed39 of more organised methods of core reduction.”
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“Consistent with this hypothesis, a recent experimental archaeology study demonstrated that, across six measures, the transmission of stone tool making improves with teaching, and particularly with language, but not with imitation or emulation (Morgan et al., 2015).”
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“However, the results of Morgan et al. indicate that gestural communication, and especially verbal communication, are more effective than non-teaching conditions (reverse engineering or imitation-emulation)39.”
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“our results lend weight to the pedagogical hypothesis of language6, according to which lithic knapping and language may have co-evolved5,39,76.”
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“However, hominin dependence on lithic technology would have generated a selective process favourable to the development of a more complex social transmission mechanism, allowing more effective diffusion of technical knowledge24,39.”
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“Language, the fastest and most efficient way to transmit information, could have lent hominins a great competitive advantage79 by favouring the social transmission of knowledge related to lithic technology39,40.”
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- Morgan, T. J. H., Uomini, N. T., Rendell, L. E., Chouinard-Thuly, L., Street, S. E., Lewis, H. M., Cross, C. P., Evans, C., Kearney, R., de la Torre, I., Whiten, A., & Laland, K. N.
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- Nature Communications
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- 2015-01-13
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- 6
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- 2041-1723
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- PMC4338549
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