Transmission Biases and Cumulative Culture Flashcards
slide-box task with chimps
Hopper et al 2008
‘when’ social learning strategy:
- when unsure/lacked info
immigrants conform to majority technique - chimps
Reader & Laland 2015
‘who’ social learning strategy
- copy higher ranks
copy those with high proficiency/good reputation
Woods et al 2012
children prefer to copy inexperienced adult over an experienced child
Woods et al 2012
costly information hypothesis
Boyd & Richardson 1985
social tolerance hypothesis
chimps + orangs: more time together, increased tradition repetoire
Van Schaik et al 2003
callatrichid monkeys learn more complex tasks with social info
Kendal et al 2009
no correlation between HG group size an number of technologies
Collard et al 2005
teaching in gold lion tamarins
Rapaport 2011