A sizeable dataset comprising millions of lithic artifacts sampling over two million years of early paleolithic tool technology from Africa and Eurasia is now available. The widespread presupposition of an exclusively cultural, that is, socially learned, nature of early stone tools from at least Acheulean times onwards has been challenged by researchers who hypothesize that these tools, a crucial element of early hominin survival strategies, may partly have been under genetic control, next to the effects of various other determinants. The discussion this hypothesis has sparked off in the present journal is here explored somewhat further, focusing on the Baldwin effect.

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早期石材工具中的鲍德温效应。

现在已经有了一个庞大的数据集，其中包含来自非洲和欧亚大陆超过200万年的早期古石器时代技术采样的数以百万计的石器物。至少从阿芝兰时代开始，一种专门用于文化，即从社会上获悉的早期石器工具的普遍假设遭到研究人员的挑战，他们认为这些工具是早期人类素生存策略的关键要素，可能在一定程度上受到了限制。遗传控制，其次是各种其他决定因素。在本期刊上引发这种假设的讨论在此进行了进一步探讨，重点放在鲍德温效应上。