From 9b9ac0d39475fed4f42035e2d378b41899caaa2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Chimento Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 08:08:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index eec6b33..69e17e1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Repository for data, analyses and code for the manuscript titled "Population tur [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/298310660.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/298310660) # Abstract ->*Selection for more efficient socially learned behaviors over alternatives is crucial for cumulative cultural evolution, yet our understanding of such cultural selection in animals is limited. We performed a cultural diffusion experiment using 18 populations of wild-caught great tits (Parus major) to ask whether more efficient innovations are subsequently selected for, and whether this process is affected by turnover. We show that gradual replacement of individuals greatly increases the probability that a more efficient behavior will invade a population's cultural repertoire, out-competing an established inefficient behavior. Turnover does not increase innovation rates, but instead increases adoption rates, as immigrants are more susceptible to novel, efficient behaviors. An agent based model further supported our results by demonstrating that this effect holds across populations of different types of learners. Altogether, these results provide strong evidence for cultural selection for efficiency in animals, and highlight the importance of population turnover for this process.* +>*Selection for more efficient socially learned behaviors over alternatives is crucial for cumulative cultural evolution, yet our understanding of such cultural selection in animals is limited. We performed a cultural diffusion experiment using 18 populations of wild-caught great tits (Parus major) to ask whether more efficient foraging traditions are selected for, and whether this process is affected by turnover. We show that gradual replacement of individuals greatly increases the probability that a more efficient behavior will invade a population's cultural repertoire, out-competing an established inefficient behavior. Turnover does not increase innovation rates, but instead increases adoption rates, as immigrants are more susceptible to novel, efficient behaviors. An agent based model further supported our results by demonstrating that this effect holds across populations of different types of learners. Altogether, these results provide strong evidence for cultural selection for efficiency in animals, and highlight the importance of population turnover for this process.* # Contents This repository contains all relevant code and data for this manuscript. @@ -14,5 +14,6 @@ Directory | Description ABM | Python code needed to run the agent based model analysis | R code used to run the statistical analyses and create figures data | Dataframes used to run the statistical analyses and create figures +images | output of figure code is exported here Please see the readme in each directory for further information.