Repeated learning makes cultural evolution unique

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 33, 2009, Pages 13870-13874

  Strimling, Pontus ^a   Enquist, Magnus ^a   Eriksson, Kimmo ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cultural fitness; Diffusion; Retention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARENTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 69549111498     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903180106     Document Type: Article

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