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Do Sigmoidal Acquisition Curves Indicate Conformity?

2017-07-03

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> The potential for behaviours to spread via cultural transmission has profound implications for our understanding of social dynamics and evolution. Several studies have provided empirical evidence that local traditions can be maintained in animal populations via conformist learning (i.e. copying the majority). A conformist bias can be characterized by a sigmoidal relationship between a behavior’s...

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Literature Corpus work: 84f76985-484c-5a57-9c55-3d5646182410
DOI: 10.1101/159038

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