Sentences with phrase «cumulative cultural evolution»
The phenomenon, known as cumulative cultural evolution, was considered «arguably unique to humans,» says Dora Biro, a behavioral biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
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«But our study demonstrates that nonhuman animals can accumulate knowledge and improve performance over generations, satisfying the criteria for cumulative cultural evolution,» Sasaki says.