Baldwin effects in early stone tools
Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews, vol. 29, pp. 237–244
Abstract
A sizeable dataset comprising millions of lithic artifacts sampling over two million years of early paleolithic tool technology from Africa and Eurasia is now available. The widespread presupposition of an exclusively cultural, that is, socially learned, nature of early stone tools from at least Acheulean times onwards has been challenged by researchers who hypothesize that these tools, a crucial element of early hominin survival strategies, may partly have been under genetic control, next to the effects of various other determinants. The discussion this hypothesis has sparked off in the present journal is here explored somewhat further, focusing on the Baldwin effect.
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Raymond Corbey corresponding Aachen Faculty of Archaeology Leiden University Leiden The Netherlands Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University
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Faculty of Archaeology Leiden University Leiden The Netherlands
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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