The spontaneous emergence of conventions: An experimental study of cultural evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1989-1994

  Centola, Damon ^a,b   Baronchelli, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; LINGUISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84923172398     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418838112     Document Type: Article

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