Cumulative culture. The result of our double legacy as cooperatively breeding apes?

Autor/inn/en	Sehner, Sandro; Burkart, Judith M.
Titel	Cumulative culture. The result of our double legacy as cooperatively breeding apes? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kumulative Kultur in Menschen als Ergebnis unseres doppelten Vermächtnisses. Wie große Gehirne und gemeinschaftliche Jungenaufzucht unsere Evolution geprägt haben.
Quelle	In: Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und pädagogische Psychologie, 55 (2023) 1, S. 9-13Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0049-8637; 2190-6262
DOI	10.1026/0049-8637/a000268
Schlagwörter	Mutter-Kind-Beziehung; Prosoziales Verhalten; Psychologie; Vergleichende Psychologie; Verhalten; Innovation; Kooperation; Psychologie; Soziales Lernen; Verhalten; Evolution; Lernverhalten; Primat; Sorge; Vergleichende Psychologie; Prosoziales Verhalten; Lernverhalten; Soziales Lernen; Evolution; Primat; Tier; Mütterlichkeit; Kulturgeschichte; Innovation; Kooperation; Sorge
Abstract	Although the spread of innovations through social learning is well documented in animals, resulting animal cultures have remained simple without an increase in complexity over time. Human culture, in contrast, evolves constantly and is unparalleled in terms of complexity and diversity. Why only human culture is cumulative is the subject of ongoing debates, but the most prevalent suggestions are that animals lack high-fidelity transmission and complex innovations. This article examines how the combination of two factors may have helped humans overcome these limitations: first, our having a big brain, inherited from our great-ape-like ancestors; second, our reliance on extensive allomaternal care that evolved convergently with other cooperatively breeding species. We provide support for this suggestion with recent evidence from cooperatively breeding common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus), showing that motivation for cooperation can trump intelligence when it comes to solving problems and information transmission to the next generation. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2023/1