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Patented Technology as a Model System for Cultural Evolution

Resource added September, 2019

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Pdf
created on
September 03, 2019
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pdf
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1 MB
publisher
University of Minnesota Press
publisher place
Minneapolis, MN
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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Copyright 2019 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota

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The study of cultural evolution would benefit from model systems analogous to model organisms in biology. Patented technology fills this role as a baseline for comparison with and extrapolation to non-model cultural systems in three dimensions: hyper-parental genealogies of cultural traits, open-ended innovation in cultural systems, and automated methods for data mining to visualize and quantify cultural evolution.

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