Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies

Abstract Despite extensive work on the evolution of cooperation, the roles of teaching and leadership in transmitting opaque cultural norms—foundations of cooperative behaviors—are underexplored. Similarly, while teaching is well-studied in the evolution of instrumental culture, little attention is...

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Main Authors: Zachary H. Garfield, Sheina Lew-Levy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58764-9
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