Victoria Reyes?García|James Broesch|Laura Calvet-Mir|Núria Fuentes-Peláez|Thomas W. McDade|Sorush Parsa|Susan Tanner|Tomás Huanca|William R. Leonard|Maria Ruth Martínez-Rodríguez
Cultural transmission of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills: an empirical analysis from an Amerindian society
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats|Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona|Emory University|Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona|Universitat de Barcelona|Northwestern University|University of California, Davis|University of Georgia|Centro de Información y Desarrollo de la Mujer|Northwestern University|University of Georgia
modeling cultural transmission great importance understanding maintenance erosion spread cultural traits innovations researchers hypothesized unlike biological transmission cultural transmission occurs least three different nonmutually exclusive paths 1 parents vertical 2 age peers horizontal 3 older generations oblique used data 270 adults society bolivian amazon estimate association persons knowledge skills knowledge skills 1 samesex parent 2 age peers individuals born village subject within 4 years subjects year birth 3 parental cohort excluding parents found statistically significant association personal parental old cohort knowledge magnitude association larger old cohort knowledge parental knowledge suggesting studied population transmission ethnobotanical knowledge skills mostly oblique