Cultural diversity and wisdom of crowds are mutually beneficial and evolutionarily stable

Abstract The ability to learn from others (social learning) is often deemed a cause of human species success. But if social learning is indeed more efficient (whether less costly or more accurate) than individual learning, it raises the question of why would anyone engage in individual information s...

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Main Authors: Benoît de Courson, Léo Fitouchi, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Michael Benzaquen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95914-7