Faking the News: Intentional Guided Variation Reflects Cognitive Biases in Transmission Chains Without Recall
Two potential forms of mutation in cultural evolution have been identified: ‘copying error’, where learners make random modifications to a behaviour and ‘guided variation’ where learners makes non-random modifications. While copying error is directly analogous to genetic mutation, guided variation i...
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| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Cultural Science |
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| Online Access: | https://culturalscience.org/articles/109 |