Cultural conformity generates extremely stable traditions in bird song

‘Conformist bias’, in which individuals learn a common behavioural variant more often than expected by chance, has not been demonstrated convincingly in non-human animals. This study analyses song recordings and models of cultural evolution to show conformist bias in swamp sparrow populations.

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Autores principales: Robert F. Lachlan, Oliver Ratmann, Stephen Nowicki
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:417eedbd9fad48039923559772c90da82021-12-02T17:32:17ZCultural conformity generates extremely stable traditions in bird song10.1038/s41467-018-04728-12041-1723https://doaj.org/article/417eedbd9fad48039923559772c90da82018-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04728-1https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723‘Conformist bias’, in which individuals learn a common behavioural variant more often than expected by chance, has not been demonstrated convincingly in non-human animals. This study analyses song recordings and models of cultural evolution to show conformist bias in swamp sparrow populations.Robert F. LachlanOliver RatmannStephen NowickiNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2018)
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Cultural conformity generates extremely stable traditions in bird song
description ‘Conformist bias’, in which individuals learn a common behavioural variant more often than expected by chance, has not been demonstrated convincingly in non-human animals. This study analyses song recordings and models of cultural evolution to show conformist bias in swamp sparrow populations.
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title Cultural conformity generates extremely stable traditions in bird song
title_short Cultural conformity generates extremely stable traditions in bird song
title_full Cultural conformity generates extremely stable traditions in bird song
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title_full_unstemmed Cultural conformity generates extremely stable traditions in bird song
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