Learning strategies and cultural evolution during the Palaeolithic /
x, 169 p. : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm. - (Replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans series ) Content notes : 1. Introduction to "Learning strategies and cultural evolution during the Palaeolithic" / Kenichi Aoki and Alex Mesoudi --
2. Factors limiting the number of independent cultural traits that can be maintained in a population / Laurel Fogarty, Joe Yuichiro Wakano, Marcus W. Feldman, and Kenichi Aoki --
3. The evolution of culturally transmitted teaching behavior / Wataru Nakahashi --
4. A population-genetics based model for explaining apparent cultural continuity from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in Eurasia / Yutaka Kobayashi, Seiji Kadowaki, and Masaki Naganuma --
5. Mobility and cultural diversity in central-place foragers : implications for the emergence of modern human behavior / L.S. Premo --
6. Behavioral modernity and the cultural transmission of structured information : the semantic Axelrod model / Mark E. Madsen and Carl P. Lipo --
7. Inferring learning strategies from cultural frequency data / Anne Kandler and Adam Powell --
8. Simulating geographical variation in material culture : were early modern humans in Europe ethnically structured? / Mirna Kovacevic, Stephen Shennan, Marian Vanhaeren, Francesco d'Errico, and Mark G. Thomas --
9. Transmission of cultural variants in the North American Paleolithic / Michael J. O'Brien, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew T. Boulanger, Alex Mesoudi, Mark Collard, Metin I. Eren, R. Alexander Bentley, and R. Lee Lyman --
10. Experimental studies of cumulative culture in modern humans : what are the requirements of the ratchet? / Christine A. Caldwell --
11. Learning in the Acheulean : experimental insights using handaxe form as a 'model organism' / Stephen J. Lycett, Kerstin Schillinger, Marius Kempe, and Alex Mesoudi. Paleolithic period. Human evolution. Aoki, Kenichi,
