The Distinctively Human Mind : The Many Pillars of Cumulative Culture
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T his chapter argues that there are multiple adaptations underlying the distinctiveness of the human mind. Careful analysis of the capacities that are involved in the creation, acquisition, and transmission of culture and cultural products suggests that it is very unlikely that these could be underlain by just one, or even a few, novel cognitive systems. On the contrary, there are at least eight such systems, each of which is largely independent of the others.
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