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Out of Africa: Human Generative Creativity and the Origins of Language
What makes us human? We have long known that humanitys uniqueness–language and our openended creativity–arose from our ancestors in Southern Africa, a generative promiscuity pervading all we do, from combinatorial tool making to combinatorial language; and from there to music and mathematics.
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Neanderthal Language
Botha, Rudie. 2020. Neanderthal Language. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108868167
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Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning
Gärdenfors, Peter and Marlize Lombard. 2020. Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning. Biology & Philosophy, 35(4), 40. https://...
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Hunting and Hunting Technologies as Proxy for Teaching and Learning During the Stone Age of Southern Africa
Lombard, Marlize. 2015. Hunting and Hunting Technologies as Proxy for Teaching and Learning During the Stone Age of Southern Africa. Cambrid...
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Children, Teaching and the Evolution of Humankind
Högberg, Anders, and Peter Gärdenfors. 2015. Children, Teaching and the Evolution of Humankind. Childhood in the Past 8 (2): 113–21. doi:10....
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Bridging Theory and Bow Hunting: Human Cognitive Evolution and Archaeology
Coolidge, Frederick L, Miriam Noël Haidle, Marlize Lombard, and Thomas Wynn. 2016. Bridging Theory and Bow Hunting: Human Cognitive Evolutio...
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Mountaineering or Ratcheting? Stone Age Hunting Weapons as Proxy for the Evolution of Human Technological, Behavioral and Cognitive Flexibility
Lombard, Marlize. 2016. Mountaineering or Ratcheting? Stone Age Hunting Weapons as Proxy for the Evolution of Human Technological, Behaviora...
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Demonstration and Pantomime in the Evolution of Teaching
Gärdenfors, Peter. 2017. Demonstration and Pantomime in the Evolution of Teaching. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg...
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The Archaeology of Teaching and the Evolution of Homo docens
Gärdenfors, Peter and Anders Högberg. 2017. The Archaeology of Teaching and the Evolution of Homo docens. Current Anthropology, 58(2), 188–2...
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The role of play objects and object play in human cognitive evolution and innovation
Riede, Felix, Niels N. Johannsen, Anders Högberg, April Nowell and Lombard, Marlize. 2018. The role of play objects and object play in human...