Innovativeness, population size and cumulative cultural evolution

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-47

  Kobayashi, Yutaka ^a   Aoki, Kenichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cultural moran model; Direct bias; Gumbel distribution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CULTURAL TRADITION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LEARNING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84861678088     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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