Equation 8 · Part 1 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100
Symbol rho_t
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Here is the stock of cultural complexity in circulation at time t ; [0,1] is the transmission-fidelity coefficient — the share of that survives one round of copying, the same quantity Henrich’s Tasmania case shows collapsing when the effective transmitting population shrinks; is genuinely new human innovation entering the pool; and is loss…
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