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Pay-off-biased social learning underlies the diffusion of novel extractive foraging traditions in a...

Pay-off-biased social learning underlies the diffusion of novel extractive foraging traditions in a...

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Pay-off-biased social learning underlies the diffusion of novel extractive foraging traditions in a wild primate

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Pay-off-biased social learning underlies the diffusion of novel extractive foraging traditions in a wild primate

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England: The Royal Society

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Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences, 2017-06, Vol.284 (1856), p.20170358-20170358

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English

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England: The Royal Society

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The type and variety of learning strategies used by individuals to acquire behaviours in the wild are poorly understood, despite the presence of behavioural traditions in diverse taxa. Social learning strategies such as conformity can be broadly adaptive, but may also retard the spread of adaptive innovations. Strategies like pay-off-biased learnin...

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Pay-off-biased social learning underlies the diffusion of novel extractive foraging traditions in a wild primate

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1983936991

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1983936991

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ISSN

0962-8452

E-ISSN

1471-2954

DOI

10.1098/rspb.2017.0358

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