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Applying the Cultural Ratchet to a Social Artefact: The Cumulative Cultural Evolution of a Language Game

2018-02-16

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<p>Material artefacts evolve by cumulative cultural evolution (CCE), the accumulation of adaptive modifications over time. We present a large-scale experiment investigating the CCE of a social artefact in transmission chains, each containing 8 adult human participants (N=408). The social artefact is what Wittgenstein calls a ‘language game’, the subset of language used to perform a particular activity; in the pres...

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Literature Corpus work: 5a47c75f-e5b7-56be-9f54-fa1fc72179aa
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/gm96s

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