Imitation-driven Cultural Collapse

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<p>A unique feature of human society is its ever-increasing diversity and complexity. Although individuals can generate meaningful variation, they can never create the whole cultural and technological knowledge sustaining a society on their own. Instead, social transmission of innovations accounts for most of the accumulated human knowledge. The natural cycle of cumulative culture entails fluctuations in the diver...

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• Cooperative Behavior
• Game Theory
• Models, Biological
• Mutation
• Population Dynamics

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63d78a64-67b6-5ef7-95ca-561ae2ac1ace

DOI

10.31234/osf.io/dt6bx