Do transmission mechanisms or social systems drive cultural dynamics in socially structured populations?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1515-1524

  Nunn, Charles L ^a,b,c   Thrall, Peter H ^d   Bartz, Kevin ^e   Dasgupta, Tirthankar ^e   Boesch, Christophe ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

culture, transmission; individual based model; social learning; social systems

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DISPERSAL; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RARITY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 67349159059     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.02.023     Document Type: Article

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