A paper on the ratchet of cumulative culture and its evolution. The companion cites it for human culture's cumulative ratchet, which improves artifacts and techniques while the brains that turn it stay biologically fixed. Superparental descent (P7) is that ratchet with the turning hand inherited too, since the procedure that designs descendants is copied and improved with them.
- Cited in
- the companion paper
- Used for
- P7
- Strand
- Evolution & heredity
Cite
@article{tennie2009ratcheting,
title = {Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture},
author = {Claudio Tennie and Josep Call and Michael Tomasello},
year = {2009},
journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
doi = {10.1098/rstb.2009.0052},
}