dc.contributor.author | Kuijper, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Leimar, O | |
dc.contributor.author | Hammerstein, P | |
dc.contributor.author | McNamara, JM | |
dc.contributor.author | Dall, SRX | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-22T11:35:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-05-17 | |
dc.description.abstract | Most analyses of the origins of cultural evolution focus on when and where social learning
prevails over individual learning, overlooking the fact that there are other developmental inputs
that influence phenotypic fit to the selective environment. This raises the question how the
presence of other cue ‘channels’ affects the scope for social learning. Here, we present a model
that considers the simultaneous evolution of (i) multiple forms of social learning (involving
vertical or horizontal learning based on either prestige or conformity biases) within the broader
context of other evolving inputs on phenotype determination, including (ii) heritable epigenetic
factors, (iii) individual learning, (iv) environmental and cascading maternal effects, (v) conservative bet-hedging and (vi) genetic cues.In fluctuating environments that are autocorrelated
(and hence predictable), we find that social learning from members of the same generation
(horizontal social learning) explains the large majority of phenotypic variation, whereas other
cues are much less important. Moreover, social learning based on prestige biases typically
prevails in positively autocorrelated environments, whereas conformity biases prevail in negatively autocorrelated environments. Only when environments are unpredictable or horizontal
social learning is characterised by an intrinsically low information content, other cues such as
conservative bet-hedging or vertical prestige biases prevail. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Leverhulme Trust | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Swedish Research Council | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 376 (1828), article 20200048 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rstb.2020.0048 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | RPG-2018-380 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 2018-03772 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/124468 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Royal Society | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021 The Author(s).
Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. | |
dc.subject | Cultural evolution | en_GB |
dc.subject | information | en_GB |
dc.subject | phenotypic plasticity | en_GB |
dc.subject | prestige versus conformity | en_GB |
dc.subject | maternal effects | en_GB |
dc.subject | horizontal transmission | en_GB |
dc.title | The evolution of social learning as phenotypic cue integration | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-01-22T11:35:20Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0962-8436 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the Royal Society via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-11-11 | |
exeter.funder | ::Leverhulme Trust | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-11-11 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-01-21T20:41:14Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-06-18T12:49:21Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |