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Technical reasoning alone does not take humans this far.

Maxime DerexRobert Boyd
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2020)
Although we see much utility in Osiurak and Reynaud's in-depth discussion on the role of what they term technical reasoning in cumulative culture, we argue that they neglect the time and energy costs that individuals would have to face to acquire skills in the absence of specific socio-cognitive abilities.
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