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Summary

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Cultural stability can arise from convergent transformation, where new cultural items evolve in a directed manner. This process can maintain cultural traits even without copying or selection, offering new insights into cultural evolution.

Keywords:

convergent transformation cultural attraction cultural evolution cultural transmission culture individual based model

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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.