Culture and the mind: A new theory of human intelligence

7th February 2018

Science Weekly podcast from The Guardian, 7 February 2018

How does cultural transmission in humans differ from that found in other animals? What does this tell us about general intelligence? And, fundamentally, how important is culture to our own evolutionary history? Nicola Davis discusses these questions with Kevin Laland (University of St Andrews) and Diana Reiss (Hunter College, New York).