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Experimental studies of cultural evolution

2021-07-02

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<p>In this chapter I review how experiments - both in the lab and in the field - have played a growing role in the study of cultural evolution over the last two decades. Experiments occupy a middle ground between formal models and real-world observational and historical studies. Like models, they offer the advantages of control and manipulation in order to determine causal relations between variables. Like real-wo...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qzvxy

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