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cognitive niche: a standalone construct

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Evolutionary anthropology

the proposal that humans evolved to exploit a niche of causal reasoning, cooperation and language, which together coevolved.

In evolutionary anthropology, cognitive niche refers to the proposal that humans evolved to exploit a niche of causal reasoning, cooperation and language, which together coevolved. This meaning comes from Pinker (2010) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

Pinker, S. (2010). The cognitive niche: Coevolution of intelligence, sociality, and language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(supplement_2), 8993-8999. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0914630107

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