Studying the emergence of complicated group-level cultural traits requires a mathematical framework

作者:Doebeli Michael*; Simon Burton
来源:Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014, 37(3): 258-259.
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X13002859

摘要

Understanding the cultural evolution of complicated group-level traits requires the mathematical formulation of a dynamical system with birth and death events at multiple levels, that is, at the level of individual humans and at the level of groups of humans. Both levels are characterized by cultural traits that have complicated transmission, innovation, and inheritance mechanisms and that can undergo a form of Lamarckian evolution.

  • 出版日期2014-6

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