When Natural Selection Favors Imitation of Parents

By R. Mcelreath, Pontus Strimling. Current Anthropology, 2008

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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One cultural parent makes no culture (2010, background): “This double option of social and asocial learning has been explored in a number of models (Cavalli-Sforza & Feldman 1981; Boyd & Richerson 1985; McElreath & Strimling 2008), sometimes with imperfect asocial learning (Boyd & Richerson 1985), or with asocial learning tried only when social learning…”
A Bayesian approach to the evolution of social learning (2012, background): “There has been much interest in understanding the evolution of social learning (Boyd & Richerson, 1985; Cavalli-Sforza & Feldman, 1981; Kameda & Nakanishi, 2003; McElreath & Strimling, 2008; Rendell, Fogarty et al., 2010; Rogers, 1988; Whiten et al., 2001).”
On the relationship between interindividual cultural transmission and population-level cultural diversity: a case study of weaving in Iranian tribal populations (2009, background): “It has been suggested (e.g., McElreath & Strimling, 2008) that previous ethnographic studies conducted in similar smallscale nonindustrial settings (e.g., Aunger, 2000, Greenfield et al., 2000; Hewlett & Cavalli-Sforza, 1986; Lozada et al., 2006; Ohamgari & Berkes, 1997) may have inflated the…”
Imitative and Direct Learning as Interacting Factors in Life History Evolution (2017, unknown): “The advantages arising from individuals only imitating their own parents, and how those benefits depend on the environment being stable, have previously been explored in a rather different type of model by McElreath and Strimling [64].”