Detail Information
Publications
Stone tools, language and the brain in human evolutionDietrich Stout
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 1557 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:75-87. 2012....
Technological variation in the earliest Oldowan from Gona, Afar, EthiopiaDietrich Stout
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 1557 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Hum Evol 58:474-91. 2010..We propose that cultural transmission and ecological adaptation should be recognized as complementary, rather than mutually exclusive, mechanisms in future attempts to explain Oldowan technological variation...
Stone toolmaking and the evolution of human culture and cognitionDietrich Stout
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:1050-9. 2011..Cognitive evolution and the greater latitude for cultural variation afforded by increasingly complex technologies may play complementary roles in explaining this pattern...
Technology, expertise and social cognition in human evolutionDietrich Stout
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Eur J Neurosci 33:1328-38. 2011..These findings support motor resonance hypotheses for the evolutionary origins of human social cognition and cumulative culture, directly linking these hypotheses with archaeologically observable behaviours in prehistory...
