Season 2 is here!
In this season we are going to be exploring culture — what it is, why we have it, and what are its properties.
We are going to be primarily drawing off the work of Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson and most of my source material is drawn from either their papers or their book not by genes alone.
“a collection of information spread out throughout the population that is acquired through social learning. This information can be any kind of skill, belief or mental state.”
We devote the entirety of the episode towards exploring what this means. We begin with the term population. In order to understand culture, we must first understand population level thinking. We then move on to discussing what a cultural variant is, where it is stored and how culture is context-dependent.
