Causal cognition emerges early in development and confers an important advantage for survival. But does this mean that it is universal in humans? Our cross-disciplinary review suggests a broad evolutionary basis for core components of causal cognition but also underlines the essential role of culturally transmitted content as being uniquely human. The multiple ways in which both content and the key mechanisms of cultural transmission generate cultural diversity suggest that causal cognition in humans is not only colored by their specific cultural background but also shaped more fundamentally by the very fact that humans are a cultural species.

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人类因果认知的文化结构。

因果认知在发展的早期出现，并赋予生存重要的优势。但这是否意味着它在人类中是普遍的？我们的跨学科评论为因果认知的核心组成部分提供了广泛的进化基础，但同时也强调了文化传播内容作为独特人类所起的重要作用。内容和文化传播的关键机制产生文化多样性的多种方式表明，人类的因果认知不仅因其特定的文化背景而异，而且因人类是一种文化物种这一事实而在更根本上受到影响。