Maintenance of prior behaviour can enhance cultural selection
Abstract Many cultural phenomena evolve through a Darwinian process whereby adaptive variants are selected and spread at the expense of competing variants. While cultural evolutionary theory emphasises the importance of social learning to this process, experimental studies indicate that people’s dom...
Main Authors: | Bradley Walker, José Segovia Martín, Monica Tamariz, Nicolas Fay |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-10-01
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Series: | Scientific Reports |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99340-7 |
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