| Literature DB >> 18951656 |
Laurent Lehmann1, Kevin R Foster, Elhanan Borenstein, Marcus W Feldman.
Abstract
Helping behaviors can be innate, learned by copying others (cultural transmission) or individually learned de novo. These three possibilities are often entangled in debates on the evolution of helping in humans. Here we discuss their similarities and differences, and argue that evolutionary biologists underestimate the role of individual learning in the expression of helping behaviors in humans.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18951656 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.07.012
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Ecol Evol ISSN: 0169-5347 Impact factor: 17.712