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Evolutionary anthropology

the accumulation of modifications to culture over generations so that traditions become more complex than any one person could invent.

In evolutionary anthropology, cumulative cultural evolution refers to the accumulation of modifications to culture over generations so that traditions become more complex than any one person could invent. This meaning comes from Tennie (2009) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.[1]

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Tennie, C., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1528), 2405-2415. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0052

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