Considering the role of time budgets on copy-error rates in material culture traditions: an experimental assessment.
Ethnographic research highlights that there are constraints placed on the time available to produce cultural artefacts in differing circumstances. Given that copying error, or cultural 'mutation', can have important implications for the evolutionary processes involved in material culture c...
Main Authors: | Kerstin Schillinger, Alex Mesoudi, Stephen J Lycett |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4014615?pdf=render |
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