Kenichi Aoki

Summary

Affiliation: University of Tokyo
Country: Japan

Publications

  1. ncbi Sexual selection as a cause of human skin colour variation: Darwin's hypothesis revisited
    Kenichi Aoki
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan
    Ann Hum Biol 29:589-608. 2002
  2. ncbi Evolution of social learning: a mathematical analysis
    Joe Yuichiro Wakano
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 66:249-58. 2004
  3. ncbi Evolutionarily stable learning schedules and cumulative culture in discrete generation models
    Kenichi Aoki
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 81:300-9. 2012
  4. ncbi Rates of cultural change and patterns of cultural accumulation in stochastic models of social transmission
    Kenichi Aoki
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 79:192-202. 2011
  5. ncbi Evolution of the social-learner-explorer strategy in an environmentally heterogeneous two-island model
    Kenichi Aoki
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan
    Evolution 64:2575-86. 2010
  6. ncbi Evolution of learning in subdivided populations that occupy environmentally heterogeneous sites
    Kenichi Aoki
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 74:356-68. 2008
  7. ncbi Do social learning and conformist bias coevolve? Henrich and Boyd revisited
    Joe Yuichiro Wakano
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 72:504-12. 2007
  8. ncbi A mixed strategy model for the emergence and intensification of social learning in a periodically changing natural environment
    Joe Yuichiro Wakano
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Tokyo, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 70:486-97. 2006
  9. ncbi Innovativeness, population size and cumulative cultural evolution
    Yutaka Kobayashi
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 82:38-47. 2012
  10. ncbi Homogamy and imprinting-like effect on mate choice preference for body height in the current Japanese population
    Motohide Seki
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Ann Hum Biol 39:28-35. 2012

Detail Information

Publications13

  1. ncbi Sexual selection as a cause of human skin colour variation: Darwin's hypothesis revisited
    Kenichi Aoki
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan
    Ann Hum Biol 29:589-608. 2002
    ..Such a preference would generate sexual selection for light skin that counteracts natural selection for dark skin. The observed latitudinal gradient in skin colour may result from the balance between natural and sexual selection...
  2. ncbi Evolution of social learning: a mathematical analysis
    Joe Yuichiro Wakano
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 66:249-58. 2004
    ..Our results are consistent with the predictions of previous studies. In addition, we identify a critical level of environmental constancy below which only individual and social learners are present...
  3. ncbi Evolutionarily stable learning schedules and cumulative culture in discrete generation models
    Kenichi Aoki
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 81:300-9. 2012
    ..Moreover, we find for each situation that the evolutionarily stable learning schedule is also the one that optimizes the learned phenotype at equilibrium...
  4. ncbi Rates of cultural change and patterns of cultural accumulation in stochastic models of social transmission
    Kenichi Aoki
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 79:192-202. 2011
    ..We compare our findings with those predicted by prevailing theories for rates of cultural change and the distribution of cultural variation...
  5. ncbi Evolution of the social-learner-explorer strategy in an environmentally heterogeneous two-island model
    Kenichi Aoki
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan
    Evolution 64:2575-86. 2010
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  6. ncbi Evolution of learning in subdivided populations that occupy environmentally heterogeneous sites
    Kenichi Aoki
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 74:356-68. 2008
    ..The successive peaks of the transient spatial distributions of the number of individual learners occur at initially empty sites...
  7. ncbi Do social learning and conformist bias coevolve? Henrich and Boyd revisited
    Joe Yuichiro Wakano
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 72:504-12. 2007
    ..In conclusion, the conditions favoring a heavy reliance on social learning are not the same as those favoring a strong conformist bias...
  8. ncbi A mixed strategy model for the emergence and intensification of social learning in a periodically changing natural environment
    Joe Yuichiro Wakano
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Tokyo, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 70:486-97. 2006
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  9. ncbi Innovativeness, population size and cumulative cultural evolution
    Yutaka Kobayashi
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 82:38-47. 2012
    ..When the number of acquaintances is small relative to the population size, we find that a change in the innovation rate contributes more than a proportional change in population size to the cumulative cultural evolution of skill level...
  10. ncbi Homogamy and imprinting-like effect on mate choice preference for body height in the current Japanese population
    Motohide Seki
    Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Ann Hum Biol 39:28-35. 2012
    ..Homogamy for body height has been repeatedly documented in Western societies. Nevertheless, the underlying mechanism is unclear and the reasons for its apparent absence in non-Western societies remain unexplained...
  11. ncbi On Richerson and Boyd's model of cultural evolution by sexual selection
    Ayako Nakajima
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
    Theor Popul Biol 61:73-81. 2002
    ..Nevertheless, the cultural processes can support a stable polymorphic equilibrium at which the choosy females are present. Also of interest are the cyclical dynamics observed in the neighborhood of the internal equilibrium...
  12. ncbi Cultural coevolution of norm adoption and enforcement when punishers are rewarded or non-punishers are punished
    Jeremy Kendal
    Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
    Theor Popul Biol 70:10-25. 2006
    ..Furthermore, for each metanorm, a population of norm-adopters who always observe the norm can be locally stable over a continuum of punishment frequencies...
  13. ncbi Evolution of learning in fluctuating environments: when selection favors both social and exploratory individual learning
    Elhanan Borenstein
    Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
    Evolution 62:586-602. 2008
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