From fish to fashion: Experimental and theoretical insights into the evolution of culture

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1567, 2011, Pages 958-968

  Laland, K N ^a   Atton, N ^a   Webster, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Fishes; Gene culture coevolution; Social learning; Teaching; Tradition

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; COEVOLUTION; COGNITION; CULTURAL HISTORY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING GROUND; FISH; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENOTYPE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LABORATORY METHOD; LEARNING; MATE CHOICE; PHYLOGENETICS; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEACHING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMALIA; PISCES;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; ESCAPE REACTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79955467274     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0328     Document Type: Article

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