The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission.

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Summary

It is argued that a wider range of phenomena associated with prestige processes can more plausibly be explained by this simple theory than by others, and its predictions are tested with data from throughout the social sciences.

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2001-05-01
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Deference, Prestige, Copying, Cultural transmission in animals, Social psychology

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