from day 08/06/2020

A précis of ‘Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age’

When, at the beginning of 2016, I started to think about the project that would have become the book Cultural evolution in the digital age, my goal was to apply cultural evolution theory to a topic of some real-world relevance. How the diffusion of digital online media could impact the circulation ...

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‘Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age’ Book Club

Alberto Acerbi’s timely new book, Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age, offers a cultural evolutionary perspective on our behavior online, and on its cumulative effects on information diffusion and cultural transmission. The ideas he develops, supported by a vast body of quantitative and ...

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