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Tool innovation may be a critical limiting step for the establishment of a rich tool-using culture: A perspective from child development

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Recent data show that human children (up to 8 years old) perform poorly when required to innovate tools. Our tool-rich culture may be more reliant on social learning and more limited by domain-general constraints such as ill-structured problem solving than otherwise thought.

Source: Behavioral and Brain Sciences

DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x11001877

Authors: Sarah R. Beck, Jackie Chappell, Ian A. Apperly, Nicola Cutting

Institution: University of Birmingham

Language: English

Topic: Language and cultural evolution

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Economic and Social Research Council

Awards: (Re)Inventing the wheel: the development of tool innovation., G922982307