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Skill learning and the evolution of social learning mechanisms
2016
BMC Evolutionary Biology
Social learning is potentially advantageous, but evolutionary theory predicts that (i) its benefits may be self-limiting because social learning can lead to information parasitism, and (ii) these limitations can be mitigated via forms of selective copying. However, these findings arise from a functional approach in which learning mechanisms are not specified, and which assumes that social learning avoids the costs of asocial learning but does not produce information about the environment.
doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0742-9
pmid:27553961
pmcid:PMC4995764
fatcat:5ynhydf2nzgztg4cefcj4e3tfe