Title: Transmission of cultural traits in layered ego-centric networks
Author(s):

	V. Palchykov (Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University, 00076 Aalto, Finland; Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 79011 Lviv, Ukraine; Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands) ,
	K. Kaski (Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University, 00076 Aalto, Finland; CABDyN Complexity Center, Said Business School, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1HP, UK; CCNR and Physics Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA) ,
	J. Kert\'esz (Center for Network Science, Central European University, Nador 9, H--1051, Budapest, Hungary; Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University, 00076 Aalto, Finland)

Although a number of models have been developed to investigate the emergence of culture and evolutionary phases in social systems, one important aspect has not yet been sufficiently emphasized. This is the structure of the underlaying network of social relations serving as channels in transmitting cultural traits, which is expected to play a crucial role in the evolutionary processes in social systems. In this paper we contribute to the understanding of the role of the network structure by developing a layered ego-centric network structure based model, inspired by the social brain hypothesis, to study transmission of cultural traits and their evolution in social network. For this model we first find analytical results in the spirit of mean-field approximation and then to validate the results we compare them with the results of extensive numerical simulations.

Key words: ego-centric network, evolution of culture, mean-field approximation
PACS: 89.75.Fb, 89.65.Ef, 89.75.Hc

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