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  1. Mar 2023
    1. Why have we, alone in the animal kingdom, created art and literature, socio-political systems that permit large-scale cooperation, and the scientific and technological knowledge to colonize the whole planet and explore space?
      • Cumulative cultural evolution has emerged as the front runner to explain human "success"
      • CCE was popularized by Boyd & Richarerson and Tomasello.
      • Tomasello argued that only humans could "accumulate modifications over time"