Fig. 2: Population size and number of innovations as a function of population size. | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Fig. 2: Population size and number of innovations as a function of population size.

From: Innovation rate and population structure moderate the effect of population size on cumulative technological culture

Fig. 2

A Model results in terms of technology’s quality as a function of population size. We run 200 simulations of 200 generations for each population size NC in the range [0, 100]. Gray lines represent each simulation single simulation run for a specific population size NC. The blue line represents the averaged technology’s quality between simulations. Common parameter values for all models: n = 2, θ = 5, βUP = 1.2, βDOWN = 0.6, pinnovation = 0.01. B The total number of innovations (both social and asocial) as a function of population size. C The total number of opportunities to innovate (solid line) and missed opportunities (dotted line) as a function of population size. D Percentage of missed opportunities compared to the total number of opportunities as a function of population size.

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