Data from: Social network architecture and the tempo of cumulative cultural evolution
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- 1. Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Description
The ability to build upon previous knowledge—cumulative cultural evolution—is a hallmark of human societies. While cumulative cultural evolution depends on the interaction between social systems, cognition and the environment, there is increasing evidence that cumulative cultural evolution is facilitated by larger and more structured societies. However, such effects may be interlinked with patterns of social wiring, thus the relative importance of social network architecture as an additional factor shaping cumulative cultural evolution remains unclear. By simulating innovation and diffusion of cultural traits in populations with stereotyped social structures, we disentangle the relative contributions of network architecture from those of population size and connectivity. We demonstrate that while more structured networks, such as those found in multilevel societies, can promote the recombination of cultural traits into high-value products, they also hinder spread and make products more likely to go extinct. We find that transmission mechanisms are therefore critical in determining the outcomes of cumulative cultural evolution. Our results highlight the complex interaction between population size, structure and transmission mechanisms, with important implications for future research.
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Since these data were generated by computer simulations, we also provide all the code to run the models and generate replicates of these data. Please visit the online repository associated to this article at https://github.com/simeonqs/Social_network_architecture_and_the_tempo_of_cumulative_cultural_evolution to have access to:
- The R code to create the social networks
- The Python code to run the two agent based models
- The R code to run the two agent based models
- The R code to create the figures in the article that uses these simulated data.
Funding provided by: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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Funding provided by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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Funding provided by: H2020 European Research Council
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Funding provided by: China Scholarship Council
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Funding provided by: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
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Funding provided by: Advanced Centre for Collective Behaviour*
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Funding provided by: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
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- Is cited by
- 10.1101/2020.12.04.411934 (DOI)
- Is derived from
- https://github.com/simeonqs/Social_network_architecture_and_the_tempo_of_cumulative_cultural_evolution (URL)
- 10.5281/zenodo.4503544 (DOI)