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SUBMITTER: Read D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2606695 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun
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Biology is only part of the story ...
Read Dwight D van der Leeuw Sander S
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20080601 1499
The origins and development of human cognition constitute one of the most interesting questions to which archaeology can contribute today. In this paper, we do so by presenting an overview of the evolution of artefact technology from the maker's point of view, and linking that development to some hypotheses on the evolution of human cognitive capacity. Our main hypothesis is that these data indicate that, in the first part of the trajectory, biological limits to cognitive capacity were a major c ...[more]
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