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Prestige-biased social learning: current evidence and outstanding questions

2018-10-10

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<p>Cultural evolution theory posits that a major factor in human ecological success is our high-fidelity and selective social learning, which permits the accumulation of valuable knowledge and skills over successive generations. Social learning needs to be selective in order to be adaptive. One way to acquire adaptive social information is by preferentially copying competent individuals within a valuable domain (s...

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Literature Corpus work: 654b46a6-e501-536d-a0c4-2de718716c49
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/j5ekb

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