Evolution of social versus individual learning in an infinite island model

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1624-1635

  Kobayashi, Yutaka ^a   Wakano, Joe Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dual inheritance theory; Gene culture coevolution; Producer scrounger game; Rogers' paradox; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; COEXISTENCE; FECUNDITY; HOMOGENEITY; MIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84860194694     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01541.x     Document Type: Article

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