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Teaching in the Pleistocene: lessons for today's school

Teaching in the Pleistocene: lessons for today’s school

Teaching, in its broadest meaning, is a uniquely human phenomenon and linked to our nature as cultural beings. Natural selection shaped our cognitive structure so that we could take advantage of the knowledge possessed by our fellow humans. Humans are capable of generating a cumulative cultural inheritance system thanks to which we have managed to spread across […]…