ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
The importance of life history and population regulation for the evolution of social learning.
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Abstract
Social learning and life history interact in human adaptation, but nearly all models of the evolution of social learning omit age structure and population regulation. Further progress is hindered by a poor appreciation of how life history affects selection on learning. We discuss why life history and age structure are important for social learning and present an exemplary model of the evolution of social learning in which demographic properties of the population arise endogenously from assumptions about
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