ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Conceptual diversity and the evolution of abstract thought
Human cultural evolution Human cultural evolution is often traced via ancient pot-shards, cave paintings and ritualistic traditions. But a greater challenge is to unravel the abstract concepts behind these physical traces. Cultural evolution involves not just artefacts and practices, but also the transmission of conceptual structures – ways of mentally representing the world – with continuous intergenerational transmission over thousands of years. Cultural areas in distinct parts of the world have developed some strikingly different conceptual structures, but there are not yet established methods for systematically investigating this conceptual diversity. CONCEVO aims to uncover histories…
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