Cultural Evolution

Inferring Cultural Constraints & Landscapes of the Possible
Talk at the Santa Fe Institute on the use of landscape models to approach the mapping of cultural constraints and cultural evolution.
Mar 6, 2023 1:00 PM Santa Fe Institute
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Inferring Cultural Constraints & Landscapes of the Possible
Inferring Cultural Landscapes with the Inverse Ising Model
We present an improved method to estimate a landscape model on biased and inconsistent data in the “small data” limit. We demonstrate the method on a curated subset of the Database of Religious History.
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Inferring Cultural Landscapes with the Inverse Ising Model