Rates of cultural change and patterns of cultural accumulation in stochastic models of social transmission

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 192-202

  Aoki, Kenichi ^a   Lehmann, Laurent ^b   Feldman, Marcus W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Cultural heterogeneity; Fixation probability; Infinite site model; One to many transmission

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURAL CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICS;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 79955465124     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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