The evolution of teaching

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2760-2770

  Fogarty, L ^a   Strimling, P ^a,b   Laland, K N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Asocial learning; Cooperation; Cumulative culture; Evolution; Social learning; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LEARNING; TEACHING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEACHING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEACHING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80053451136     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01370.x     Document Type: Article

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