Think like an ecologist?: A response to ‘Changing models in cultural evolution: from (quasi-)Darwinian to ecological mechanisms: a commentary on “Quasi-Darwinian mechanisms: ecological inheritance and cumulative culture” by Kim Sterelny’ by Nicolas Baumard and Jean-Baptiste André
Nicolas Baumard, Jean-Baptiste André and I agree that ecological legacies play a large role in explaining the capacity of Late Pleistocene and Holocene hunter-gatherers to adapt to the many environments in which they flourished. We also agree that while social learning is important, it rarely consists of members of the...