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Adaptive strategies for cumulative cultural learning
Mälardalen University, School of Education, Culture and Communication. Stockholms universitet, Centrum för evolutionär kulturforskning.
Stockholm University.
2012 (English)In: Journal of Theoretical Biology, ISSN 0022-5193, E-ISSN 1095-8541, Vol. 301, p. 103-111Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The demographic and ecological success of our species is frequently attributed to our capacity for cumulative culture. However, it is not yet known how humans combine social and asocial learning to generate effective strategies for learning in a cumulative cultural context. Here we explore how cumulative culture influences the relative merits of various pure and conditional learning strategies, including pure asocial and social learning, critical social learning, conditional social learning and individual refiner strategies. We replicate the Rogers' paradox in the cumulative setting. However, our analysis suggests that strategies that resolved Rogers' paradox in a non-cumulative setting may not necessarily evolve in a cumulative setting, thus different strategies will optimize cumulative and non-cumulative cultural learning.

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2012. Vol. 301, p. 103-111
Keywords [en]
Social learning, Cumulative culture, Rogers paradox, Social learning strategy
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Biological Sciences Mathematics
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Mathematics/Applied Mathematics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-22799DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.02.004ISI: 000303079500011Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84857666206OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-22799DiVA, id: diva2:664418
Available from: 2012-09-12 Created: 2013-11-15 Last updated: 2017-12-06Bibliographically approved

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