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Population Ecology of Tunes
John M. McBride, Armand. M. Leroi
How cultural repertoires maintain diversity under selection is a fundamental question in cultural evolution. We address this using thirteen years of weekly popularity data for appr…
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Contrasting statistical patterns in melodic and molecular evolution reveal distinctive constraints in a culturally evolving system
John M McBride, W Tecumseh Fitch
Evolved sequences can be used to infer the rules of evolution. Orally transmitted folk melodies are evolved sequences whose similarity to protein sequences (one-dimensional, drawn…