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{"title":"To copy or not to copy? That is the question! From chimpanzees to the foundation of human technological culture","authors":"Héctor M. Manrique ,&nbsp;Michael J. Walker","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2023.02.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A prerequisite for copying innovative behaviour faithfully is the capacity of observers' brains, regarded as ‘hierarchically mechanistic minds’, to overcome cognitive ‘surprisal’ (see 2.), by maximising the evidence for their internal models, through active inference. Unlike modern humans, chimpanzees and other great apes show considerable limitations in their ability, or ‘Zone of Bounded Surprisal’, to overcome cognitive surprisal induced by innovative or unorthodox behaviour that rarely, therefore, is copied precisely or accurately. Most can copy adequately what is within their phenotypically habitual behavioural repertoire, in which technology plays scant part. Widespread intra- and intergenerational social transmission of complex technological innovations is not a hall-mark of great-ape taxa. 3 Ma, precursors of the genus Homo made stone artefacts, and stone-flaking likely was habitual before 2 Ma. After that time, early Homo erectus has left traces of technological innovations, though faithful copying of these and their intra- and intergenerational social transmission were rare before 1 Ma. This likely owed to a cerebral infrastructure of interconnected neuronal systems more limited than ours. Brains were smaller in size than ours, and cerebral neuronal systems ceased to develop when early Homo erectus attained full adult maturity by the mid-teen years, whereas its development continues until our mid-twenties nowadays. Pleistocene Homo underwent remarkable evolutionary adaptation of neurobiological propensities, and cerebral aspects are discussed that, it is proposed here, plausibly, were fundamental for faithful copying, which underpinned social transmission of technologies, cumulative learning, and culture. Here, observers' responses to an innovation are more important for ensuring its transmission than is an innovator's production of it, because, by themselves, the minimal cognitive prerequisites that are needed for encoding and assimilating innovations are insufficient for practical outcomes to accumulate and spread intra- and intergenerationally.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"45 ","pages":"Pages 6-24"},"PeriodicalIF":11.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3460193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation","authors":"Ryan Joseph Slaby ,&nbsp;Stefano Cappa ,&nbsp;Zaira Cattaneo","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2023.02.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"45 ","pages":"Pages 25-28"},"PeriodicalIF":11.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3460194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Viewing mass extinctions through the lens of mathematical modeling","authors":"Susmita Sadhu","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2023.01.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.01.022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"44 ","pages":"Pages 204-206"},"PeriodicalIF":11.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"2355047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"TPJ in speech and praxis","authors":"Tamar Giorgobiani ,&nbsp;Ferdinand Binkofski","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2022.11.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2022.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"44 ","pages":"Pages 4-5"},"PeriodicalIF":11.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3403750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From the free energy principle to a confederation of Bayesian mechanics","authors":"Miguel Aguilera ,&nbsp;Beren Millidge ,&nbsp;Alexander Tschantz ,&nbsp;Christopher L. Buckley","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2023.01.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.01.018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"44 ","pages":"Pages 270-275"},"PeriodicalIF":11.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3144445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.","authors":"Francisco A. Rodrigues","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2022.12.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2022.12.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"44 ","pages":"Pages 73-76"},"PeriodicalIF":11.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"2699282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The riddle of TPJ function in language processing","authors":"Stefano F. Cappa","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2022.11.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2022.11.013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"44 ","pages":"Pages 108-109"},"PeriodicalIF":11.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"2314875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Are neurodegenerative disorders causing characteristic changes in visual artwork?","authors":"Marco Treven","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2022.12.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2022.12.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"44 ","pages":"Pages 102-104"},"PeriodicalIF":11.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"2699286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Taming the abundance of degrees of freedom","authors":"Pietro Morasso","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2023.01.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.01.013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"44 ","pages":"Pages 166-169"},"PeriodicalIF":11.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"2738645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Motor invariants in action execution and perception","authors":"Francesco Torricelli ,&nbsp;Alice Tomassini ,&nbsp;Giovanni Pezzulo ,&nbsp;Thierry Pozzo ,&nbsp;Luciano Fadiga ,&nbsp;Alessandro D'Ausilio","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2022.11.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2022.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The nervous system is sensitive to statistical regularities of the external world and forms internal models of these regularities to predict environmental dynamics. Given the inherently social nature of human behavior, being capable of building reliable predictive models of others' actions may be essential for successful interaction. While social prediction might seem to be a daunting task, the study of human motor control has accumulated ample evidence that our movements follow a series of kinematic invariants, which can be used by observers to reduce their uncertainty during social exchanges. Here, we provide an overview of the most salient regularities that shape biological motion, examine the role of these invariants in recognizing others' actions, and speculate that anchoring socially-relevant perceptual decisions to such kinematic invariants provides a key computational advantage for inferring conspecifics' goals and intentions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"44 ","pages":"Pages 13-47"},"PeriodicalIF":11.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"2954182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}