How copying affects the amount, evenness and persistence of cultural knowledge: Insights from the social learning strategies tournament

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1567, 2011, Pages 1118-1128

  Rendell, L ^a   Boyd, R ^b   Enquist, M ^c   Feldman, M W ^d   Fogarty, L ^a   Laland, K N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Simulation modelling; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PERSISTENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79959502324     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0376     Document Type: Article

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