To what adaptive problems is human teaching a solution?

Mikołaj Hernik; György Gergely

doi:10.1017/S0140525X14000788

To what adaptive problems is human teaching a solution?

Mikołaj Hernik^*
, György Gergely

^*Corresponding author for this work

Central European University

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We welcome Kline's systematic overview of teaching from a functional evolutionary perspective. However, Kline's framework does not provide satisfying characterization of the adaptive problems driving the evolution of teaching through communication found in humans, where the key function is better characterized in terms of licensing inferences to opaque generic content than in terms of overcoming shortages of access and attention.

Original language	English
Article number	e42
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	38
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X14000788
State	Published - 2015

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