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Cultural evolution: Subsistence and social learning

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Social learning is a crucial building block of human culture, but how and why do people vary in their propensity to learn from others? Experiments in Ethiopia suggest that pastoralists rely more on others' knowledge than do horticulturalists.

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Figure 1: Subsistence practices.

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