Cultural evolution: Subsistence and social learning

Alex Mesoudi ()
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Alex Mesoudi: Alex Mesoudi is in the Human Biological and Cultural Evolution Group, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK.

Nature Human Behaviour, 2017, vol. 1, issue 5, 1-2

Abstract: Social learning is a crucial building block of human culture, but how and why do people vary in their propensity to learn from others? Experiments in Ethiopia suggest that pastoralists rely more on others' knowledge than do horticulturalists.

Date: 2017
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