{"id":95,"date":"2004-09-04T14:58:43","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T12:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/?p=95"},"modified":"2018-04-24T20:26:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T19:26:52","slug":"the-cognitive-foundations-of-cultural-stability-and-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004_hirschfeld-the-cognitive-foundations-of-cultural-stability-and-diversity.pdf\">Dan Sperber &#038; Lawrence Hirschfeld (2004) <b>The cognitive foundations of cultural stability and diversity<\/b>. <i>Trends in Cognive Science 8<\/i>, 40-46.<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>The existence and diversity of human cultures are made possible by our species-specific cognitive capacities. But how? Do cultures emerge and diverge as a result of the deployment, over generations and in different populations, of general abilities to learn, imitate and communicate? What role if any do domain-specific evolved cognitive abilities play in the emergence and evolution of cultures? These questions have been approached from different vantage points in different disciplines. Here we present a view that is currently developing out of the converging work of developmental psychologists, evolutionary psychologists and cognitive anthropologists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}