Persistence of contrasting traditions in cultural evolution: unpredictable payoffs generate slower rates of cultural change.

We report an experimental test of the hypothesis that contrasting traditions will persist for longer, maintaining cultural differences between otherwise similar groups, under conditions of uncertainty about payoffs from individual learning. We studied the persistence of two alternative, experimental...

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Main Authors: Christine A Caldwell, Roland M Eve
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/110744c695204e5c9f0e8975f96fa6c1
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