Evolutionarily stable learning schedules and cumulative culture in discrete generation models

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 300-309

  Aoki, Kenichi ^a   Wakano, Joe Yuichiro ^b   Lehmann, Laurent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cumulative culture; Optimal strategy; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; LEARNING; OPTICAL THEORY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84859270358     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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