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Partial connectivity increases cultural accumulation within groups

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Derex, Maxime, Boyd, Robert·2016·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Significance: The remarkable ecological success of the human species has been attributed to our capacity to overcome environmental challenges through the development of complex technologies. Complex technologies are typically beyond the inventive capacities of individuals and result from a population process by which innovations are gradually added to existing cultural traits across many generations. Recent work suggests that a population’s ability to develop technologies is positively affected by its size and connectedness. Here, we present an experiment demonstrating that partially connected groups produce more diverse and complex cultural traits than fully connected groups. This result suggests that changes in patterns of interaction between human groups may have created propitious conditions for the emergence of complex cultural repertoires in our evolutionary past.

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Authors: Derex, M., & Boyd, R.
Affiliations: Arizona State University (US)
Corresponding author: Derex, Maxime
ORCID: Derex, Maxime
Boyd, Robert
Venue: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Published: 2016-02-29
Volume: 113
Issue: 11
Pages: 2982-2987
ISSN: 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1518798113
PMC: PMC4801235
OpenAlex: W2288242710
Cited by: 289
References: 37
Citations by year: 2026: 23 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 8
FWCI: 257.15
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Licence: www.pnas.org/preview_site/misc/userlicense.xhtml (vor, 182 d)
Locations: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: John Templeton Foundation (48952)
Topics: Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Keywords: cultural accumulation, cultural complexity, population fragmentation, cultural diversity, diffusion of innovations, fitness landscape, computer simulation, cultural evolution, group size
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Adult, Communication, Creativity, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Diffusion of Innovation, Female, Games, Experimental, Group Processes, Humans, Individuality, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Models, Theoretical, Population Density, Problem Solving, Random Allocation, Social Support, Technology Transfer, Video Games, Therapies, Investigational, Population Groups, Young Adult, Inventions

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