Adaptive strategies for cumulative cultural learning

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2012.02.004MaRDI QIDQ1784322zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Micael Ehn, Kevin N. Laland

Publication date 26 September 2018

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.02.004

zbMATH Keywords

cumulative cultureRogers paradoxsocial learningsocial learning strategy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Memory and learning in psychology (91E40)

Recommendations

• A paradox of cumulative culture
• Evolution of social learning does not explain the origin of human cumulative culture
• Trade-off between learning and exploitation: the Pareto-optimal versus evolutionarily stable learning schedule in cumulative cultural evolution
• Evolutionarily stable learning schedules and cumulative culture in discrete generation models
• Two success-biased social learning strategies

Cites work

• Do social learning and conformist bias coevolve? Henrich and Boyd revisited
• Evolution of social learning does not explain the origin of human cumulative culture
• The evolution of social learning rules: payoff-biased and frequency-dependent biased transmission

Cited in

(7)

• Cultural ecologies of adaptive vs. maladaptive traits: a simple nonlinear model
• Evolution of social learning does not explain the origin of human cumulative culture
• Cumulative cultural evolution: the role of teaching
• Conquering by copying
• Trade-off between learning and exploitation: the Pareto-optimal versus evolutionarily stable learning schedule in cumulative cultural evolution
• Everybody herds, sometimes: cumulative advantage as a product of rational learning
• A paradox of cumulative culture

This page was built for publication: Adaptive strategies for cumulative cultural learning

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1784322)