1 Human Cumulative Culture : a Comparative Perspective

End state copying by humans (Homo sapiens): implications for a comparative perspective on cumulative culture.

It has been proposed that the uniqueness of human cumulative culture may be attributable to humans' greater orientation toward copying the process of behavior (imitation), as compared with the products (emulation), resulting in particularly high fidelity transmission. Following from previous work indicating that adult human participants can exhibit cumulative learning on the basis of product co...

Journal of Comparative Psychology End State Copying by Humans (Homo sapiens): Implications for a Comparative Perspective on Cumulative Culture

Evolutionary neuroscience of cumulative culture.

Culture suffuses all aspects of human life. It shapes our minds and bodies and has provided a cumulative inheritance of knowledge, skills, institutions, and artifacts that allows us to truly stand on the shoulders of giants. No other species approaches the extent, diversity, and complexity of human culture, but we remain unsure how this came to be. The very uniqueness of human culture is both a...

Conceptual Model of Knowledge Management from the Perspective of Human Resources in Educational-Research Institutions

This paper focuses on designing a conceptual model of knowledge management from the point of view of human resources employed in educational-research institutes. The research method was descriptive-survey study and the statistical population of this study consisted of 56 experts and managers of an educational research institute. They were asked by simple random sampling method through a researc...

The Relationship Between “Human Immortality” and “Moral Action” From the Perspective of an Iranian Mujtahida (Amin Isfahani)

Islamic culture and wisdom deem human deeds to be eternal like his essence, and the source of happiness or unhappiness in the hereafter. Therefore, moral actions, namely, deeds in accordance with the standards of religious (Islamic) morality, will be the source of human happiness in the hereafter. Following the explanation of the two concepts of immortality and union of deeds with human nature,...