Modeling the Dynamics of Cultural Diversification
Module Designers
Bernard Koch
Lead Designer
Department of Sociology
University of California, Los Angeles
Research interests: the science of science, culture, cultural evolution, and computational social science
Erik Gjesfjeld
Lead Designer
Department of Archaeology
University of Cambridge, UK
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Research interests: cultural and technological evolution,
resilience and human eco-dynamics,
quantitative methods,
archaeometric analysis of pottery,
maritime hunter-gatherers,
and archaeology of the North Pacific Rim / Japan
Michael Alfaro
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Los Angeles
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Jacob Foster
Department of Sociology
University of California, Los Angeles
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Research interests: birth, life, and death of ideas: the social production of collective intelligence, the evolutionary dynamics of ideas, and the co-construction of culture and cognition
Daniele Silvestro
Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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This project was supported by Grant #61105 from the John Templeton Foundation to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (PIs: S. Gavrilets and P. J. Richerson) with assistance from the Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity and the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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