Semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 123 (22) e2530750123. 2026 Anil Yaman*, Shen Tian*, Björn Lindström (*equal contribution) 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 remai

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...