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. 2008 Sep 19;363(1509):3503–3514. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0146

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Transmission chains provide a simple setting for studying cultural transmission that has been used in psychology, anthropology and linguistics. In a transmission chain, each agent observes the data generated by the previous agent, forms a hypothesis about the source of these data and then uses that hypothesis to generate data for the next agent.