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Eyes on the price: Human culture and its teaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Christian P. Müller
Christian P. Müller*
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Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany. [email protected]://www.psychiatrie.uk-erlangen.de/wir_ueber_uns/mitarbeiter/prof_dr_rer_nat_christian_p_mueller/index_ger.html
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Abstract

Kline proposes an evolutionary framework for teaching as a major base of human culture, in which she outlines how different types of teaching may solve adaptive problems with a focus on human behavior. Here it is argued that the ability to teach and the different types of teaching behavior may not only solve adaptive problems, but also create them.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e51
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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