Learning strategies and cultural evolution during the Palaeolithic. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alex Mesoudi, Kenichi Aoki, editors.
• Editors: Mesoudi, Alex; Aoki, Ken-ichi
• Contents: Introduction -- Experimental Studies of Cumulative Culture in Modern Humans: What are the Requirements of the Ratchet -- Factors Limiting the Number of Independent Cultural Traits That Can Be Maintained in a Population -- Inferring Learning Strategies from Cultural Frequency Data -- The Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans and the Diversity in Cultural Transition Patterns: a Theoretical Perspective -- Simulating Geographical Variation in Material Culture: Were Early Modern Humans in Europe Ethnically Structured? -- 2Learning in the Acheulean: Experimental Insights Using Handaxe Form as a 'Model Organism' -- Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model -- Evolution of Culturally Transmitted Teaching Behavior -- Transmission of Cultural Variants in the North American Paleolithic -- Mobility and Cultural Diversity in Central-Place Foragers: Implications for the Emergence of Modern Human Behavior.
• Publisher Details: Tokyo : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 599.938; Paleolithic period; Human evolution; NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals; Human evolution; Paleolithic period; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9784431553632; 4431553630; 4431553622; 9784431553625
• Related ISBNs: 9784431553625
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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