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Quantifying information content using population genetics concepts and equations to develop new insights into information distribution in human communities

2026-04-03

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Information evolves within human societies in ways that parallel the evolution of genes in biological populations. Applying classical population genetics equations, we developed a framework in which the rates of learning and forgetting define the net balance of informational change, and directional exchange among groups can be represented as information flow. We apply this framework to a 43-year corpus of policy d...

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DOI: 10.32942/x2w093

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