@article{760663,
      recid = {760663},
      author = {Mesoudi, Alex, and Aoki, Ken-ichi,},
      title = {Learning strategies and cultural evolution during the  Palaeolithic /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This volume is motivated by the desire to explain why  Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans, in terms of  cultural differences between the two (sub-)species. It  provides up-to-date coverage on the theory of cultural  evolution as is being used by anthropologists,  archaeologists, biologists, and psychologists to decipher  hominin cultural change and diversity during the  Palaeolithic. The contributing authors are directly  involved in this effort, and the material presented  includes novel approaches and findings. Chapters explain  how learning strategies in combination with social and  demographic factors (e.g., population size and mobility  patterns) predict cultural evolution in a world without the  printing press, television, or the Internet. Also addressed  is the inverse problem of how learning strategies may be  inferred from actual trajectories of cultural change, for  example as seen in the North American Palaeolithic.  Mathematics and statistics, a sometimes necessary part of  theory, are explained in elementary terms where they  appear, with details relegated to appendices. Full  citations of the relevant literature will help the reader  to further pursue any topic of interest.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/760663},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55363-2},
}