The cumulative nature of human culture is unique in the animal kingdom. The ability of human populations to develop ever-more efficient tools and technologies allowed humanity to spread across the globe and shaped our evolution. The Cultural Minds project seeks to understand the cognitive processes that enable cumulative cultural evolution using experiments with adults, typically-developing children and children with autism.
The Cultural Minds team:
PI: Alex Thornton
PhD Student: Matt Lomas
Alumni:
· Amanda Lucas
· Mike Kings
· Devi Whittle
· Emma Davey
We are members of Exeter’s Human Biological and Cultural Evolution Group