Is the cultural transmission of irrelevant tool actions in adult humans (Homo sapiens) best explained as the result of an evolved conformist bias?
BACKGROUND: Recent studies of social learning have revealed that adult humans are "over-imitators" who frequently reproduce a model's causally irrelevant tool actions to the detriment of task efficiency. At present our knowledge of adult over-imitation is limited to the fact that adults do over-imit...
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| Μορφή: | Artigo |
| Γλώσσα: | Inglês |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-01-01
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| Σειρά: | PLoS ONE |
| Διαθέσιμο Online: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3520947?pdf=render |
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