Why does human culture increase exponentially?

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2008.04.007MaRDI QIDQ615499zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda, A. Jarrick, Carl-Adam Wachtmeister

Publication date 5 January 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2008.04.007

zbMATH Keywords

cumulative culturemathematical modelingorigin of human culture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in biology (37N25) Applications of dynamical systems (37N99) Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Problems related to evolution (92D15)

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