Reproductive skew affects social information use

Individuals vary in their propensity to use social learning, the engine of cultural evolution, to acquire information about their environment. The causes of those differences, however, remain largely unclear. Using an agent-based model, we tested the hypothesis that as a result of reproductive skew...

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Main Authors: Marco Smolla, Charlotte Rosher, R. Tucker Gilman, Susanne Shultz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2019-07-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.182084