Directional cultural change by modification and replacement of memes

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 295-300

  Cardoso, Gonçalo C ^a,b   Atwell, Jonathan W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Culture; Evolutionary models; Memes

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

PASSERI;

EID: 78650940918     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01102.x     Document Type: Article

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