When does selection favor learning from the old? Social learning in age-structured populations.
Culture and demography jointly facilitate flexible human adaptation, yet it still remains unclear how social learning operates in populations with age structure. Here, we present a mathematical model of the evolution of social learning in a population with different age classes. We investigate how d...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267204 |