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collective brain: a standalone construct

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Cultural evolution

the idea that innovation depends on the size and interconnectedness of a population of learners sharing information, rather than on lone inventors.

In cultural evolution, collective brain refers to the idea that innovation depends on the size and interconnectedness of a population of learners sharing information, rather than on lone inventors. This meaning comes from Muthukrishna (2016) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.[1]

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  1. Muthukrishna, M., & Henrich, J. (2016). Innovation in the collective brain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1690), 20150192. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0192

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