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Culture cumulative, apprentissage social et réseaux sociaux

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  • Claude Meidinger

    (Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne - Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

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Discussions about the existence of a culture in non-human species is often concerned by the question whether these species could possess a cognitive complexity sufficient to allow them to imitate others. According to many authors, to imitate is a cognitively sohisticated process that depends on a functionally abstract representation of a problem and its solution, something that non human species do not seem to possess. However, the fast evolution of cognitive performances and of complex inventions in human beings could not be explained only by the improvement of the rate of innovation in individual learning and (or) the improvement of the process of imitation. Such a cumulative evolution depends also on a wider social organization characterized by an increase in the size of the social networks. The simulations displayed here show how such an increase, jointly considered with the diversity of learning processes, allow to better understand the major transitions noted in the cultural evolution of primates and human beings

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  • Claude Meidinger, 2018. "Culture cumulative, apprentissage social et réseaux sociaux," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 18023, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
    • Handle: RePEc:mse:cesdoc:18023
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    Keywords

    learning processes; cumulative cultural evolution; social networks; simulations;
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    • Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics
    • C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques
    • C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior

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