Practice·Interaction·Adaptation:On the Culture-Based Plasticity of Cognitive Evolution
As an important aspect of human evolution history,cognitive evolution is a dynamic evolution history un-der the influence and shaping of culture.At the level of cognitive emergence,cultural practice represented by tool making promotes the emergence of cognition by shaping the neural mechanism of the brain,and the artifacts in cul-tural practice also expands the boundary of cognitive map to a great extent,realizing the outward extension of cogni-tive system,which can be transformed into cognitive process in different social-cultural contexts and on different time scales.At the level of cognitive development,cooperation and language communication not only promote the diffusion of dominant cognitive traits in different population dynamics and games,ensure the stable spread at the group level,but also are the key factors to promote the evolution of advanced cognition.At the level of cognitive in-heritance,the cultural adaptation of cognitive traits not only can be considered at the genetic level,but also an-swered by the theory of cultural evolution under the framework of niche construction.The cognitive traits shaped by culture have the possibility of fitness and genetic variation,which can be passed down through the path of gene-culture coevolution or cultural evolution.
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