Abstract
Vaesen's description of uniquely human tool-related cognitive abilities rings true but would be enhanced by an account of how those abilities would have evolved. I suggest that a process of technological selection operated on the cognitive architecture of ancestral hominids because they, unlike other tool-using species, depended on tools for their survival.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 222-223 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | The Behavioral and brain sciences |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - Aug 2012 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
- Physiology
- Behavioral Neuroscience