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It is not evolutionary models, but models in general that social science needs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2006

Bruce Bridgeman
Bruce Bridgeman*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA95064http://psych.ucsc.edu/faculty/bruceb/
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Abstract:

Mathematical models are potentially as useful for culture as for evolution, but cultural models must have different designs from genetic models. Social sciences must borrow from biology the idea of modeling, rather than the structure of models, because copying the product is fundamentally different from copying the design. Transfer of most cultural information from brains to artificial media increases the differences between cultural and biological information.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , August 2006 , pp. 351 - 352
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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