An Intergenerational Transmission Model for the Cultural Evolution of Helping Behavior
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چکیده
The cultural coefficient of similarity, or probability that two individuals learn the same idea from a common ancestor, is offered as an explanation for patterns ofhelping behavior in human societies. A cultural-transmission model predicts that when maternal influence in offspring learning is predominant, matrilineality will evolve in a culture. Other predictions about the form of matrilineal and palrilineal societies are made from the model and contrasted to a sociobiological explanation of matrilineality.
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