The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines

Andrew Whiten; Dora Biro; Nicolas Bredeche; Ellen Clare Garland; Simon Kirby

doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0306

The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines

Andrew Whiten^*, Dora Biro, Nicolas Bredeche, Ellen Clare Garland, Simon Kirby

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The goal of this themed issue and the associated Royal Society and British Acad- emy joint Discussion Meeting is to advance, and bridge between, two topics and their respective research fields that have burgeoned in recent years, although to date they have often done so quite separately.

Original language	English
Article number	20200306
Number of pages	14
Journal	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Volume	377
Issue number	1843
Early online date	13 Dec 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0306
Publication status	Published - 31 Jan 2022

Keywords

Cultural evolution
Cumulative culture
Collective cognition
Collective memory
Social learning
Culture

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