Tool innovation may be a critical limiting step for the establishment of a rich tool-using culture: a perspective from child development |
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| Authors: | Beck Sarah R Chappell Jackie Apperly Ian A Cutting Nicola |
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| Affiliation: | School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom. s.r.beck@bham.ac.uk |
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| Abstract: | Recent data show that human children (up to 8 years old) perform poorly when required to innovate tools. Our tool-rich culture may be more reliant on social learning and more limited by domain-general constraints such as ill-structured problem solving than otherwise thought. |
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