Behavioral constraints and the evolution of faithful social learning
Behavioral “traditions”, i.e. behavioral patterns that are acquired with the aid of social learning and that are relatively stable in a group, have been observed in several species. Recently, however, it has been questioned whether non-human social learning is faithful enough to stabilize those patt...
Main Author: | Alberto ACERBI, Pierre O. JACQUET, Claudio TENNIE |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012-04-01
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Series: | Current Zoology |
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Online Access: | http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=12007 |
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