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Brain evolution and behavioral adaptations in primates and canids| old_uid | 19528 |
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| title | Brain evolution and behavioral adaptations in primates and canids |
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| start_date | 2021/09/30 |
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| schedule | 15h30 |
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| online | no |
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| details | Infos & contact
Zoom meeting
Mail : ingrid.meucci@univ-amu.fr |
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| summary | Perhaps the most important adaptation in a human brain is that it’s wired in a way that allows us to watch what someone else is doing, reproduce that behavior, and then make incremental improvements on it. This is what’s called cumulative culture. And it’s what allowed us to go from making stone tool technology to spacecraft technology in an evolutionary eye blink, just a few thousand years. And for comparison, chimpanzee technology has remained basically frozen during that same time period. The evolutionary implications of this are profound. It means that we can inherit patterns of perception, cognition, and behavior not just through biological evolution like other animals, through our genes, but also through cultural transmission of words and ideas. |
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| responsibles | <not specified> |
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