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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...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520947/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23251395 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050863 |