While larger shoals of fish showed more stable traditions than smaller shoals, this was found to be related to their slower rate of turnover rather than a direct effect of group size.
Cultural conformity generates extremely stable traditions in bird song.
It remains unclear, however, what is required for social learning to give rise to stable traditions: what level of precision and what learning strategies are required.
However, it does not follow from here that copying mechanisms are always scarcely faithful, or that stable traditions are never supported by high fidelity copy.
Not only are copying mechanisms often characterised by low fidelity (as in the Cinderella example), but also long-term, stable, traditions are not necessarily supported by high fidelity copying (as in the religion example, where supernatural concepts may be reconstructed each time).
He said he hoped Ms. Clinton and Mr. Mezvinsky would raise any children they have in a "stable religious tradition, because that's what works".
As a relatively new nation drawn from many different immigrant populations, each with its own culture of food, we Americans find ourselves without a strong, stable culinary tradition to guide us.
For this reason, claim (II) –viz., that there are stable philosophical traditions and communities in the region, of the sort commonly found in major centers of Western philosophy— has not yet been shown false.
Borrowing from Gyekye [ 5], Nzegwu [ 6] notes the politics of customs (upon which 'indigenous' phenomena are based), contextualizing this politics while observing that "there is nothing static or stable about traditions and customs", rather, "the root of the problem lies in the way that present generations have chosen to preserve their customs or traditions" ([ 6]. p139).
Kuwait, another small, relatively stable monarchy with a tradition of gerrymandered parliaments stripped of meaningful authority, is locked in a similar protracted crisis, albeit minus the money worries.
