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cultural brain hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Evolutionary anthropology

the model that brains grew to store and manage socially learned information, linking brain size, group size, learning and life history.

In evolutionary anthropology, cultural brain hypothesis refers to the model that brains grew to store and manage socially learned information, linking brain size, group size, learning and life history. This meaning comes from Muthukrishna (2018) in PLOS Computational Biology.[1]

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Muthukrishna, M., Doebeli, M., Chudek, M., & Henrich, J. (2018). The Cultural Brain Hypothesis: How culture drives brain expansion, sociality, and life history. PLOS Computational Biology, 14(11), e1006504. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006504

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