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Evolution of social learning: a mathematical analysis.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Nov 2004
Wakano Joe Yuichiro, Aoki Kenichi, Feldman Marcus W
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Social learning is an important ability seen in a wide range of animals including humans. It has been argued that individual learning, social learning, and innate determination of behavior are favored by natural selection when environmental changes occur at short, intermediate, and long intervals, respectively. Only recently, however, has the hypothesis been examined by means of mathematical models. In this...
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