Cultural evolution of systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1797, 2014, Pages

  Claidière, Nicolas ^a   Smith, Kenny ^b   Kirby, Simon ^b   Fagot, J ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Human evolution; Iterated learning; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PARADIGM SHIFT; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PAPIO PAPIO; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PAPIO PAPIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84908701811     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1541     Document Type: Article

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