Agent-based model experiments cast doubt on Dunnell’s adaptive waste explanation for cultural elaboration
Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 1 - 17
Published: Jan 1, 2019
Abstract
Ancient monuments are puzzling from an evolutionary perspective. It is obvious that their construction would have been costly in terms of energy, but it is not clear how they would have enhanced reproductive success. In the late 1980s, Robert Dunnell proposed a solution to this conundrum. He argued that wasting energy on monuments and other forms of what he called “cultural elaboration” was adaptive in highly variable environments. Here, we...
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Title
Agent-based model experiments cast doubt on Dunnell’s adaptive waste explanation for cultural elaboration
Published Date
Jan 1, 2019
Volume
5
Issue
1
Pages
1 - 17
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