Repeated learning makes cultural evolution unique
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Repeated learning makes cultural evolution unique.
Although genetic information is acquired only once, cultural information can be both abandoned and reacquired during an individual's lifetime. Therefore, cultural evolution will be determined not only by cultural traits' ability to spread but also by how good they are at sticking with an individual; however, the evolutionary consequences of this aspect of culture have not previously been explor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903180106