Partial connectivity increases cultural accumulation within groups

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

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2982-2987

  Derex, Maxime ^a   Boyd, Robert ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Innovation; Population size; Social network; Technological trajectory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANDSCAPE; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; VIDEO GAME; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; CREATIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; GAME; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN RELATION; INDIVIDUALITY; INVENTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROUP; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; CREATIVITY; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INVENTIONS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROUPS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; THERAPIES, INVESTIGATIONAL; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962624841     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1518798113     Document Type: Article

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