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Cumulative cultural evolution of systematic structure and grammatical complexity in humans and baboons

Simon Kirby, Vanessa Ferdinand, Kenny Smith, Joël Fagot and Nicolas Claidière. Cumulative cultural evolution of systematic structure and grammatical complexity in humans and baboons.  Proceedings of the Evolang Conference, Bruxelles, 2020

 

This comparative paper shows a difference between humans and baboons in the way sets of structured behaviours culturally evolve.

Suggested readings :

  1. Associative learning accounts for recursive-structure generation in crows

  2. Human language as a (unique) combination of inherited (and shared) domain-general cognitive abilities

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