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An Evolutionary Approach to the Study of Collaborative Remembering?
1Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Jr. Research Group of Primate Kin Selection.
Abstract:
Hope and Gabbert (2008) and Jay and colleagues (in press) show us that collaborative remembering, in certain contexts, may result in incomplete and less accurate memories. Here, I will discuss the evolutionary origins of this behavior, linking it to phenomena such as social contagion, conformity, and social learning, which are highly adaptive and widespread across non-human taxa.
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