Semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution 事件

Semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution arXiv:2510.12837v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cultural evolution allows ideas and technologies to accumulate across generations, reaching their most complex and open-ended form in humans. While social learning enables the transmission of such innovations, the cognitive processes that generate them remain poorly understood. Classical theories typically treat innovation as random variation, a simplification insufficien