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Equation 8 · Part 1 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100

Symbol rho_t

ρt\rho_t
ρt\rho_t

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Here CtC_t is the stock of cultural complexity in circulation at time t ; ρt\rho_t ∈\in [0,1] is the transmission-fidelity coefficient — the share of CtC_t that survives one round of copying, the same quantity Henrich’s Tasmania case shows collapsing when the effective transmitting population shrinks; ItI_t is genuinely new human innovation entering the pool; and LtL_t is loss…

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