TY - JOUR
T1 - Slowing life history (K) can account for increasing micro-innovation rates and GDP growth, but not macro-innovation rates, which declined following the end of the Industrial Revolution
AU - Woodley Of Menie, Michael A.
AU - Figueredo, Aurelio José
AU - Sarraf, Matthew A.
PY - 2019/11/20
Y1 - 2019/11/20
N2 - Baumard proposes that life history slowing in populations over time is the principal driver of innovation rates. We show that this is only true of micro-innovation rates, which reflect cognitive and economic specialization as an adaptation to high population density, and not macro-innovation rates, which relate more to a population's level of general intelligence.
AB - Baumard proposes that life history slowing in populations over time is the principal driver of innovation rates. We show that this is only true of micro-innovation rates, which reflect cognitive and economic specialization as an adaptation to high population density, and not macro-innovation rates, which relate more to a population's level of general intelligence.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X19000098
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X19000098
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 31744586
AN - SCOPUS:85075324462
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 42
SP - e213
JO - The Behavioral and brain sciences
JF - The Behavioral and brain sciences
ER -