November 30, 2022 - 10:00am
Wednesday, Nov 30, 2022
Speaker: Yoav Ram, Tel Aviv University
Title: Cultural evolution of cooperation: the role of non-vertical transmission
Brief Abstract: We use a cultural-evolutionary model to find conditions for the evolution of cooperation under vertical, oblique, and horizontal cultural transmission. These conditions, which have interesting parallels with Hamilton’s rule, are validated with stochastic simulations of structured populations.
Paper: Cohen, D., Lewin-Epstein, O., Feldman, M. W. & Ram, Y. Non-vertical cultural transmission, assortment and the evolution of cooperation. Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 288, 20203162 (2021).
