Lewis Dean
Biographic Data
| ID | 134514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lewis Dean |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lewis |
| FAMILY NAME | Dean |
| SIGNATURE | DEAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Skills and motivations underlying children’s cumulative cultural learning
The breakthrough study of Dean et al. (Science 335:1114–1118, 2012) claimed that imitation, teaching, and prosociality were crucial for cumulative cultural learning. None of their child participants solved the final stage of their puzzlebox without social support, but it was not directly tested whether the solution was beyond the reach of individual children. We provide this missing asocial control condition, showing that children can reach the f…
Imitation, Social Learning, and Cultural Traditions
Social learning allows the spread of new knowledge and skills, and is the basis for traditions in a wide range of animal species. These traditions may, in turn, form the basis of culture. Although often used synonymously with social learning, imitation denotes a distinctive social learning mechanism, which many researchers hypothesize allows particularly high‐fidelity transmission of information. This entry examines a range of social learning mec…
Culture, Nonhuman
Culture has had immeasurable consequences for our species. Whether nonhuman animals display culture that is in some ways homologous to our own remains a contentious issue. This entry examines the extent to which animals meet a range of cultural criteria proposed in recent literature, from social learning, through multiple‐tradition repertoires, to cumulative culture and cultural norms. Moving beyond the mere presence/absence debate to conceptuali…
Culture, Cumulative
Cumulative culture can refer to cumulative cultural evolution as well as to the products of this evolution. Cumulative culture simultaneously increases the efficiency of the trait as well as preserving changes to the form of the trait itself. It is often intergenerational and can lead to traits that are no longer inventable by a naive individual. The exact necessary and sufficient mechanisms of cumulative culture are still debated. While modern h…
Celebrating 50 years of the Primate Society of Great Britain
The Primate Society of Great Britain was established in 1967 by John Napier and colleagues for the scientific study of everything related to primates. It is credit to Napier’s foresight that the Society’s 400+ members represent fields as diverse as anatomy, behaviour, cognition, conservation, ecology, evolution, physiology, neuro- and veterinary sciences and captive welfare. The 50th anniversary conference was held at the Royal Geographical Socie…
Human cumulative culture
Many animals exhibit social learning and behavioural traditions, but human culture exhibits unparalleled complexity and diversity, and is unambiguously cumulative in character. These similarities and differences have spawned a debate over whether animal traditions and human culture are reliant on homologous or analogous psychological processes. Human cumulative culture combines high‐fidelity transmission of cultural knowledge with beneficial modi…
Sex ratio affects sex‐specific innovation and learning in captive ruffed lemurs ( Varecia variegata and Varecia rubra )
Recent years have witnessed extensive research into problem solving and innovation in primates, yet lemurs have not been subjected to the same level of attention as apes and monkeys, and the social context in which novel behavior appears has rarely been considered. We gave novel foraging puzzlebox devices to seven groups of ruffed lemurs ( Varecia variegata and Varecia rubra ) to examine the factors affecting rates of innovation and social learni…
Innovations in the study of human culture
Innovation, the utilisation of a new or modified product or process, is key to human culture. The extraordinary capacity of humans to innovate has given us a complex cultural system when compared to other species. Technology has built upon previous traits, applying them to new situations and inventing new components to make a process more efficient or complex (BASALLA 1988). Indeed our ability to innovate is likely to have fed back, shaping our g…
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Innovations in the study of human culture
Innovation, the utilisation of a new or modified product or process, is key to human culture. The extraordinary capacity of humans to innovate has given us a complex cultural system when compared to other species. Technology has built upon previous traits, applying them to new situations and inventing new components to make a process more efficient or complex (BASALLA 1988). Indeed our ability to innovate is likely to have fed back, shaping our g…
Sex ratio affects sex‐specific innovation and learning in captive ruffed lemurs ( Varecia variegata and Varecia rubra )
Recent years have witnessed extensive research into problem solving and innovation in primates, yet lemurs have not been subjected to the same level of attention as apes and monkeys, and the social context in which novel behavior appears has rarely been considered. We gave novel foraging puzzlebox devices to seven groups of ruffed lemurs ( Varecia variegata and Varecia rubra ) to examine the factors affecting rates of innovation and social learni…
Human cumulative culture
Many animals exhibit social learning and behavioural traditions, but human culture exhibits unparalleled complexity and diversity, and is unambiguously cumulative in character. These similarities and differences have spawned a debate over whether animal traditions and human culture are reliant on homologous or analogous psychological processes. Human cumulative culture combines high‐fidelity transmission of cultural knowledge with beneficial modi…
Imitation, Social Learning, and Cultural Traditions
Social learning allows the spread of new knowledge and skills, and is the basis for traditions in a wide range of animal species. These traditions may, in turn, form the basis of culture. Although often used synonymously with social learning, imitation denotes a distinctive social learning mechanism, which many researchers hypothesize allows particularly high‐fidelity transmission of information. This entry examines a range of social learning mec…
Culture, Nonhuman
Culture has had immeasurable consequences for our species. Whether nonhuman animals display culture that is in some ways homologous to our own remains a contentious issue. This entry examines the extent to which animals meet a range of cultural criteria proposed in recent literature, from social learning, through multiple‐tradition repertoires, to cumulative culture and cultural norms. Moving beyond the mere presence/absence debate to conceptuali…
Culture, Cumulative
Cumulative culture can refer to cumulative cultural evolution as well as to the products of this evolution. Cumulative culture simultaneously increases the efficiency of the trait as well as preserving changes to the form of the trait itself. It is often intergenerational and can lead to traits that are no longer inventable by a naive individual. The exact necessary and sufficient mechanisms of cumulative culture are still debated. While modern h…
Celebrating 50 years of the Primate Society of Great Britain
The Primate Society of Great Britain was established in 1967 by John Napier and colleagues for the scientific study of everything related to primates. It is credit to Napier’s foresight that the Society’s 400+ members represent fields as diverse as anatomy, behaviour, cognition, conservation, ecology, evolution, physiology, neuro- and veterinary sciences and captive welfare. The 50th anniversary conference was held at the Royal Geographical Socie…
Skills and motivations underlying children’s cumulative cultural learning
The breakthrough study of Dean et al. (Science 335:1114–1118, 2012) claimed that imitation, teaching, and prosociality were crucial for cumulative cultural learning. None of their child participants solved the final stage of their puzzlebox without social support, but it was not directly tested whether the solution was beyond the reach of individual children. We provide this missing asocial control condition, showing that children can reach the f…
Computer Science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Language and cultural evolution (5 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)