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Several subjects aim to understand human behavior and the factors that influence it. Many theorists value genetic, individual, and environmental paths, while little attention is aimed at social interactions, such as knowledge transmission. Factors related to cultural transmission that influence natural resource knowledge and use will be discussed from an ecological-evolutionary point of view, assuming that these processes are essentially a representation of human behavior.
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The author wishes to thank Ph.D. Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque for his many revisions to this text and his considerations, which led to the enrichment of this chapter.
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Soldati, G.T. (2016). Local or Traditional Knowledge Transmission and Natural Resource Use. In: Albuquerque, U., Nóbrega Alves, R. (eds) Introduction to Ethnobiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28155-1_34
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