Evolution & Human Behavior
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 275-281, July 2008

Do the aged and knowledgeable men enjoy more prestige? A test of predictions from the prestige-bias model of cultural transmission☆

  • Victoria Reyes-Garcia

      Affiliations

    • ICREA and Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain
    • Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain. Tel.: +34 93 581 4218; fax: +34 93 581 3331.
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  • Jose Luis Molina

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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  • James Broesch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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  • Laura Calvet

      Affiliations

    • Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain
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  • Tomas Huanca

      Affiliations

    • CBIDSI-Centro Boliviano de Investigación y de Desarrollo Socio Integral, Correo Central, San Borja, Beni, Bolivia
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  • Judith Saus

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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  • Susan Tanner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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  • William R. Leonard

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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  • Thomas W. McDade

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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  • TAPS Bolivian Study Team

      Affiliations

    • Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study, San Borja, Beni, Bolivia.

Received 7 May 2007; received in revised form 21 February 2008 published online 28 April 2008.

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☆ Research was funded by grants from the Cultural Anthropology and Physical Anthropology Programs, NSF (BCS-0134225, BCS-0200767, and BCS-0322380).

PII: S1090-5138(08)00027-5

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2008.02.002

Evolution & Human Behavior
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 275-281, July 2008

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