Game-Changing Innovations: How Culture Can Change the Parameters of Its Own Evolution and Induce Abrupt Cultural Shifts.

One of the most puzzling features of the prehistoric record of hominid stone tools is its apparent punctuation: it consists of abrupt bursts of dramatic change that separate long periods of largely unchanging technology. Within each such period, small punctuated cultural modifications take place. Pu...

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Main Authors: Oren Kolodny, Nicole Creanza, Marcus W Feldman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5241012?pdf=render