Alberto Acerbi, Alex Mesoudi, Marco Smolla

Individual-Based Models of Cultural Evolution (eBook, ePUB)

A Step-by-Step Guide Using R

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Individual-Based Models of Cultural Evolution shows readers how to create individual-based models of cultural evolution using the programming language R. The field of cultural evolution has emerged in the last few decades as a interdisciplinary effort to understand cultural change and cultural diversity within an evolutionary framework.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000602104
• Artikelnr.: 64038008

Autorenporträt

Alberto Acerbi is Lecturer in the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London, UK. He is interested in contemporary cultural phenomena, using a naturalistic, quantitative, and evolutionary approach with different methodologies, especially individual-based models and quantitative analysis of large-scale cultural data.

Alex Mesoudi is Professor of Cultural Evolution at the University of Exeter's Cornwall Campus, UK. He conducts lab experiments, constructs theoretical models and analyses real-world data to try to understand how human culture evolves over time and shapes human behaviour.

Marco Smolla is Postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany. He is a computational and evolutionary biologist, with a special interest in how humans shape and are shaped by culture. Using simulation models and dynamic social networks, he studies which conditions lead to the emergence and adoption of new and existing culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Section I. Basics 1. Unbiased Transmission 2. Unbiased and
Biased Mutation 3. Biased Transmission: Direct Bias 4. Biased Transmission:
Frequency-dependent Indirect Bias 5. Biased Transmission:
Demonstrator-based Indirect Bias 6. Vertical and Horizontal Transmission 7.
Multiple Traits Models; Section II. Advanced Topics: The Evolution of
Cultural Evolution 8. Rogers' Paradox 9. Rogers' Paradox: A Solution;
Section III. Advanced Topics: Cultural Inheritance 10. Reproduction and
Transformation 11. Social learning of Social Learning Rules 12. Traits
Inter-dependence; Section IV. Advanced Topics: Culture and Populations 13.
Demography 14. Social Network Structure 15. Group Structured Populations
and Migration References Index