Spread of costly prestige-seeking behavior by social learning

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 148-157

  Ihara, Yasuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Cultural evolution; Cultural transmission; Fertility reduction; Human behavior; Individual based simulation; Mathematical model; Social influence; Social status; Sociobiology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL HISTORY; LEARNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JAPAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 37849014927     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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