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The Cultural Evolution of Games of Chance – a historical investigation of Chinese gambling

2024-01-10

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<p>Chance-based gambling has been a recurrent cultural activity throughout history and across many diverse human societies. In this paper, I combine quantitative and qualitative data and present a cultural evolutionary framework to explain why the odds in games of chance in premodern China appeared “designed” to ensure a moderate yet favorable house advantage. This is especially intriguing since extensive research...

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Literature Corpus work: d01b86b1-aaa0-53a7-92c3-e9597f2bc0db
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/23je9

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