Postmarital residence rules and transmission pathways in cultural hitchhiking.

ABSTRACT: Cultural evolutionary processes can often lead to a statistical association between neutral and adaptive traits during episodes of population dispersal and the introduction of a beneficial technology in a geographic region. Here, we examine such cultural hitchhiking processes using an individual-based model that portrays the cultural interaction between a migrant and an incumbent population. Our model is loosely based on the interaction between farming and foraging populations during the initial stages of the adoption and diffusion of agricultural practices. The two populations are characterized by different variants for their neutral and adaptive cultural traits, with the latter set providing a reproductive advantage for the migrant communities over the incumbent ones. We explore how the

SUBMITTER: Carrignon S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11621836 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature