EPICC
Experimental Programme Investigating Cumulative Culture
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| Coordinator |
THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
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| Coordinator Country | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Project website | https://maximederex.weebly.com/ |
| Total cost | 195˙454 € |
| EC max contribution | 195˙454 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility) |
| Code Call | H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 |
| Funding Scheme | MSCA-IF-EF-ST |
| Starting year | 2017 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2017-09-01 to 2019-08-31 |
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| 1 | THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER | UK (EXETER) | coordinator | 195˙454.00 |
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Project objective
Humans exhibit a rich and complex material culture with no equivalent in other animals. The unique human capability to accumulate cultural innovations across time allows us to develop powerful technology and drives technological progress. Despite a growing literature investigating cumulative culture, the underlying processes at play in the accumulation of cultural knowledge remain puzzling. The overarching aims of this proposal are to identify the requirements of human cumulative culture both at the individual and population levels and improve our understanding of factors that affect the pace of cultural accumulation. During the course of this action, we will develop innovative experimental methods to investigate three important and timely lines of research and shed new light on the complex processes that underlie cultural accumulation: 1) Identify the cognitive requirements of innovation production and transmission, 2) Evaluate the interplay between population structure and cultural accumulation, 3) Evaluate the effects of ecological factors on the rate of innovation. This action will use lab experiments from psychology and economics and will bring knowledge from anthropology and biology to help explain why only humans are able to accumulate cultural information across time and why rates of cultural accumulation have varied in our evolutionary past.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 |
Maxime Derex, Jean-François Bonnefon, Robert Boyd, Alex Mesoudi Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology published pages: 446-452, ISSN: 2397-3374, DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0567-9 |
Nature Human Behaviour 3/5 | 2020-01-27 |
| 2019 |
Leonid Tiokhin, Maxime Derex Competition for novelty reduces information sampling in a research game - a registered report published pages: 180934, ISSN: 2054-5703, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180934 |
Royal Society Open Science 6/5 | 2020-01-27 |
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