Technological selection: a missing link.

Peter B. Crabb

doi:10.1017/S0140525X11001889

Technological selection: a missing link.

Peter B. Crabb

Penn State Hazleton

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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)
Pages (from-to)	222-223
Number of pages	2
Journal	The Behavioral and brain sciences
Volume	35
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X11001889
State	Published - Aug 2012

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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