Social Learning and Cultural Evolution

Dear Colleagues,

This is a call to all those working in Anthropology, Biology, Economics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Psychology, Sociology and related fields to come together and share their insights in this very exciting field. Alone, we are weak; together, we are strong. We communicate and learn from one another. What we do influences what others do through social learning. Together, we form a society, developing a culture that has its own dynamics via cultural evolution. How does the individual entity influence the large and vice versa? What rules do we use and why? How does individual behavior influence the mass, and create and stabilize norms? In this special issue, we invite papers using different methods, from theory to simulations to data analyses, from a focus on individual behavior to a focus on learning as a population or society, as animals, humans or machines, towards contributions to research on social learning and cultural evolution. I am eagerly awaiting your contributions.

Karl H. Schlag
Guest Editor

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