CULTURAL EVOLUTION IN A STRUCTURED POPULATION

C. B. Lowen and R. I. M. Dunbar

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Abstract: Conventional models of cultural evolution consider only panmictic populations. In many real world cases, however, random mating is constrained by the spatial or social structure of the population. A spatial population model of biased cultural transmission is proposed. Monte Carlo simulations produce results which show quantitatively different dynamics to those predicted by the more conventional mean-field model of biased cultural transmission of Boyd and Richerson.

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