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Area of Science:

  • Cultural evolution
  • Theoretical modeling
  • Social sciences

Background:

  • Cultural phenomena exhibit population-level similarity across time and space.
  • Understanding the mechanisms ensuring cultural stability is a fundamental question in the science of culture.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the evolutionary and stabilizing role of convergent transformation in cultural evolution.
  • To model the effects of convergent transformation on cultural stability.
  • To explore the interplay between convergent transformation, copying, and selection.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a series of stochastic models of cultural evolution.
  • Analysis of the conditions under which cultural stability emerges.
  • Investigation of the evolutionary signatures of non-random transformation and high-fidelity copying.

Main Results:

  • Convergent transformation alone can establish and maintain cultural stability, independent of copying or selection.
  • High-fidelity copying and convergent transformation can jointly contribute to cultural stability.
  • Non-random transformation and high-fidelity copying produce distinct evolutionary signatures detectable in empirical data.

Conclusions:

  • Convergent transformation offers a novel mechanism for cultural stability.
  • This finding complements Darwinian approaches to cultural evolution and supports frameworks like Cultural Attraction Theory.
  • The study provides formal support for understanding cultural stability through directed, non-random change.