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Distilling the Essence of an Evolutionary Process
and Implications for a Formal Description of Culture
LIANE GABORA
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Center Leo Apostel for
Interdisciplinary Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Email: liane@berkeley.edu
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DIEDERIK AERTS
Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies and Department of Mathematics
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Email: diraerts@vub.ac.be
To appear in (W. Kistler, Ed.) Proceedings of Center for Human Evolution Workshop #5:
Cultural Evolution, May 2000, Foundation for the Future, Seattle WA (2005).
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1 Introduction............................................................................................................... 3
2 Do Evolutionary Models Capture the Dynamics of Culture?...................................... 3
2.1 Memes ............................................................................................................... 4
2.2 Mathematical Approaches .................................................................................. 4
2.3 Computer Models............................................................................................... 4
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