Tracking the evolution of causal cognition in humans

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dc.contributor.authorLombard, Marlizeen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorGardenfors, Peteren_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-14T08:00:50Z
dc.date.available2019-02-14T08:00:50Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionCITATION: Lombard, M. & Gardenfors, P. 2017. Tracking the evolution of causal cognition in humans. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 95:219-234, doi:10.4436/jass.95006.
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://www.isita-org.com/jass/Contents.htm
dc.description.abstractWe suggest a seven-grade model for the evolution of causal cognition as a framework that can be used to gauge variation in the complexity of causal reasoning from the panin-hominin split until the appearance of cognitively modern hunter-gatherer communities. The intention is to put forward a cohesive model for the evolution of causal cognition in humans, which can be assessed against increasingly finegrained empirical data from the palaeoanthropological and archaeological records. We propose that the tracking behaviour (i.e., the ability to interpret and follow external, inanimate, visual clues of hominins) provides a rich case study for tracing the evolution of causal cognition in our lineage. The grades of causal cognition are tentatively linked to aspects of the Stone Age/Palaeolithic archaeological record. Our model can also be applied to current work in evolutionary psychology and research on causal cognition, so that an inter-disciplinary understanding and correlation of processes becomes increasingly possible.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.isita-org.com/jass/Contents/2017vol95/Lombard/28489015.pdf
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent16 pages
dc.identifier.citationLombard, M. & Gardenfors, P. 2017. Tracking the evolution of causal cognition in humans. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 95:219-234, doi:10.4436/jass.95006
dc.identifier.issn1827-4765 (online)
dc.identifier.issn2037-0644 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.4436/jass.95006
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/105413
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherIstituto Italiano di Antropologia
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dc.subjectCausal cognitionen_ZA
dc.subjectCausationen_ZA
dc.subjectHuman evolutionen_ZA
dc.subjectAnthropologyen_ZA
dc.subjectCognition -- Evolutionen_ZA
dc.subjectEvolutionary psychologyen_ZA
dc.titleTracking the evolution of causal cognition in humansen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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