Preprint: Semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution Anil Yaman*, Shen Tian*, Björn Lindström. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837 . (*equal contribution) Abstract Cultural evolution allows ideas and technology to build over generations, a process reaching its most complex and open-ended form in humans. While social learning enables the transmission of such innovations, the cognitive processes that generate innovations remain unclear. We propose that sem

For the full paper, please see: Yaman A., Leibo J. Z., Iacca G. Lee S. W. 2023. The emergence of division of labour through decentralized...