Increasing population size can inhibit cumulative cultural evolution
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Revisiting the effect of population size on cumulative cultural evolution
Henrich (2004) argued that larger populations can better maintain complex technologies because they contain more highly skilled people whom others can imitate. His original model, however, did not distinguish the effects of population size from population density or network size; a learner’s social network included the entire population. Does population size remain important when populations ar...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1811413116