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SUBMITTER: Somveille M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6319775 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Somveille Marius M Firth Josh A JA Aplin Lucy M LM Farine Damien R DR Sheldon Ben C BC Thompson Robin N RN
PLoS computational biology 20181220 12
The social transmission of information is critical to the emergence of animal culture. Two processes are predicted to play key roles in how socially-transmitted information spreads in animal populations: the movement of individuals across the landscape and conformist social learning. We develop a model that, for the first time, explicitly integrates these processes to investigate their impacts on the spread of behavioural preferences. Our results reveal a strong interplay between movement and co ...[more]