Rapid evolution of social learning
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Rapid evolution of social learning.
Culture is widely thought to be beneficial when social learning is less costly than individual learning and thus may explain the enormous ecological success of humans. Rogers (1988. Does biology constrain culture. Am. Anthropol. 90: 819-831) contradicted this common view by showing that the evolution of social learning does not necessarily increase the net benefits of learned behaviours in a va...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1010-061X,1420-9101
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01804.x