Diet traditions and cumulative cultural processes as side-effects of grouping

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 133-144

  van der Post, Daniel J ^a   Hogeweg, Paulien ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cumulative cultural change; diet development; diet traditions; group foraging; self organization; side effect

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DIET; GROUP BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELF ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 37349009635     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.04.021     Document Type: Article

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