ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Competitive advantage of rare behaviours induces adaptive diversity rather than social conformity in skill learning.
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- Experimental manipulation of ecological and cognitive conditions produces the entire conformity-diversity spectrum in a single species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Collective intelligence facilitates emergent resource partitioning through frequency-dependent learning.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Prestige bias in cultural evolutionary dynamics.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Social demonstration of colour preference improves the learning of associated demonstrated actions.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Mandevillian vices.Synthese · 2024Article
- Competition and generalization impede cultural formation in wild jackdaws.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Increased initial task difficulty drives social foragers to develop sub-optimal conformity instead of adaptive diversity.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Behavioural specialization and learning in social networks.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Research on Unsafe Behavior of Construction Workers Under the Bidirectional Effect of Formal Rule Awareness and Conformity Mentality.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Competitive advantage of rare behaviours induces adaptive diversity rather than social conformity in skill learning.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Complex dynamics of social learning in groups of wild Arabian babblers.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Recent studies have emphasized the role of social learning and cultural transmission in promoting conformity and uniformity in animal groups, but little attention has been given to the role of negative frequency-dependent learning in impeding conformity and promoting diversity instead. Here, we show experimentally that under competitive conditions that are common in nature, social foragers (although capable of social learning) are likely to develop diversity in foraging specialization rather than uniformity. Naive house sparrows that were introduced into groups of foraging specialists did not conform to the behaviour of the specialists, but rather learned to use the alternative food-related cues, thus forming groups of complementary specialists. We further show that individuals in such groups may forage more effectively in diverse environments. Our results suggest that when the benefit from socially acquired skills diminishes through competition in a negative frequency-dependent manner, animal societies will become behaviourally diverse rather than uniform.
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