Tweet : Cumulative Culture and Human species learning
“Cumulative culture makes us smarter in another way as well: It allows us to transcend the limitations imposed on us by the anatomy of our brains, furnishing us with knowledge.”
A growing contingent of scholars argue that our “superpower” as a species is not so much our intelligence as our collective intelligence and our capacity for what’s called cumulative culture https://t.co/sPZw2ytcEz
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) December 16, 2018