Social learning across the life cycle: Cultural knowledge acquisition for honey collection among the Jenu Kuruba, India

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 460-470

  Demps, Kathryn ^a   Zorondo Rodríguez, Francisco ^b   García, Claude ^c,d   Reyes García, Victoria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^c CIRAD   (France)

^d CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Knowledge acquisition; Overlapping generations; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865304799     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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