2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans: Testing Evolutionary Models of Learning
| Project Area | Replacement of Neanderthals by Homo sapiens: testing evolutionary models of learning |
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| Project/Area Number |
22101001
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Review Section |
Humanities and Social Sciences
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| Research Institution | Kochi University of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
AKAZAWA Takeru 高知工科大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 教授 (70013753)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MARUKAWA Yuzo 国立民族学博物館, 先端人類科学研究部, 准教授 (10390600)
MORI Hirohisa 国際日本文化研究センター, 大学共同利用機関等の部局等, 准教授 (10282625)
KONDO Yasuhisa 総合地球環境学研究所, 大学共同利用機関等の部局等, 准教授 (90599226)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
NISHIAKI Yoshihiro 東京大学, 総合研究博物館, 教授 (70256197)
TERASHIMA Hideaki 神戸学院大学, 人文学部, 教授 (10135098)
AOKI Kenichi 明治大学, 研究知財戦略センター, 教授 (30150056)
YONEDA Minoru 東京大学, 総合研究博物館, 教授 (30280712)
OGIHARA Naomichi 慶応義塾大学, 理工学部, 准教授 (70324605)
TANABE Hiroki 名古屋大学, 環境学研究所, 准教授 (20414021)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-06-23 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 先史学 / 自然人類学 / 文化人類学 / 進化学 / 神経科学 / 生体力学 / ネアンデルタール / 古環境 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In 2010, we launched the major five-year (2010-2014) research project entitled “Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans: Testing Evolutionary Models of Learning” (RNMH). The RNMH project interprets the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans in an innovative framework that illuminates the contrast between modern human societies, which succeeded in solving survival-strategic problems, and Neanderthal societies, which failed to do so. Thus, we have proposed a working hypothesis (the “learning hypothesis”), which explains the replacement occurred as a result of the difference in learning abilities between Neanderthals and modern humans, and that the social and cultural divides caused by this difference determined the outcome, and have subjected this hypothesis to various empirical tests.
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| Free Research Field |
先史人類学
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