| 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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| 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) |
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)
MARUKAWA Yuzo 国立民族学博物館, 先端人類科学研究部, 准教授 (10390600)
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 Fiscal Year |
2010-06-23 – 2016-03-31(Estimated)
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| Project Status |
Adopted(Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥131,170,000 (Direct Cost : ¥100,900,000、Indirect Cost : ¥30,270,000)
Fiscal Year 2015 : ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost : ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost : ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2014 : ¥26,520,000 (Direct Cost : ¥20,400,000、Indirect Cost : ¥6,120,000)
Fiscal Year 2013 : ¥23,660,000 (Direct Cost : ¥18,200,000、Indirect Cost : ¥5,460,000)
Fiscal Year 2012 : ¥29,380,000 (Direct Cost : ¥22,600,000、Indirect Cost : ¥6,780,000)
Fiscal Year 2011 : ¥24,700,000 (Direct Cost : ¥19,000,000、Indirect Cost : ¥5,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2010 : ¥23,010,000 (Direct Cost : ¥17,700,000、Indirect Cost : ¥5,310,000)
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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 / ネアンデルタール人 / 現生人類 / 旧石器時代の学習行動 / 学習能力の進化 / 狩猟採集民の学習行動 / 化石復元 / 脳学習機能 / 人類進化 / ネアンデルタール人絶滅 / 現生人類の起源 / 化石精密復元 |
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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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