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Conformity versus transmission in animal cultures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2022

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Andrew Whiten*
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Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9JP, UK a.whiten@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Abstract

The principal contrasts that Jagiello et al. highlight are among many cultural transmission biases we now know of. I suggest they are also reflected more widely in social learning decisions among nonhuman animal cultures governing whether cultural innovations spread, or are instead over-ridden by immigrants' conformity in their new group. Such conformity may serve either informational or social-integrative functions.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e273
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