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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2022

The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines.

Andrew Whiten, Dora Biro, Nicolas Bredeche, Ellen C Garland, Simon Kirby

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Dynamics of collective motion across time and species.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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  10. Human major transitions from the perspective of distributed adaptations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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  11. The importance of thinking about the future in culture and cumulative cultural evolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  13. Meta-control of social learning strategies.PLoS computational biology · 2022
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  14. Paradox of diversity in the collective brain.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  15. Collective knowledge and the dynamics of culture in chimpanzees.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  16. The origins of human cumulative culture: from the foraging niche to collective intelligence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  17. When does cultural evolution become cumulative culture? A case study of humpback whale song.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Andrew WhitenCentre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2426-5890
Dora BiroDepartment of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3408-6274
Nicolas BredecheSorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, ISIR, 75005 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-8241-7461
Ellen C GarlandCentre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, and Sea Mammal Research Unit, Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8240-1267
Simon KirbyCentre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6496-1340

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Cultural EvolutionKnowledgeAnimalsCultureHumansSocial Behaviorcollective cognitioncollective memorycultural evolutionculturecumulative culturesocial learning

Identifiers

PMID34894738
PMCPMC8666904

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