Cultural evolution and perpetuation of arbitrary communicative conventions in experimental microsocieties

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Caldwell, Christine A ^a   Smith, Kenny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMBOLISM; VOLUNTEER;

COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84865294830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043807     Document Type: Article

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