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Rice basket study rethinks roots of human culture

A new study from the University of Exeter has found that teaching is not essential for people to learn to make effective tools.

The results counter established views about how human tools and technologies come to improve from generation to generation and point to an explanation for the extraordinary success of humans as a species. The study reveals that although teaching is useful, it is not essential for cultural progress because people can use reasoning and reverse engineering of existing items to work out how to make tools. (more…)

Human Prejudice Has Ancient Evolutionary Roots

By Guest PostMarch 19, 2011Sciencecoast of puerto rico, common ancestor, evolution, evolutionary theorists, human, human culture, human nature, iat, implicit attitudes, ingenious experiments, island, laurie santos, mahzarin banaji, margaret martinez, monkeys, natashya gutierrez, neha mahajan, primate, psychologist, sequence of photos, us versus them

The tendency to perceive others as “us versus them” isn’t exclusively human but appears to be shared by our primate cousins, a new study led by Yale researchers has found.

In a series of ingenious experiments, Yale researchers led by psychologist Laurie Santos showed that monkeys treat individuals from outside their groups with the same suspicion and dislike as their human cousins tend to treat outsiders, suggesting that the roots of human intergroup conflict may be evolutionarily quite ancient. (more…)

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Rice basket study rethinks roots of human culture

Human Prejudice Has Ancient Evolutionary Roots