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Cultural Dynamics with Bret Beheim

Cultural Dynamics with Bret Beheim

Update: 2025-11-04
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What is cultural diffusion, why do need models of cultural change and distance, and what is on Bret's whiteboard? In this episode, we do a deep on how cultural change and distance are measured and studied with Bret Beheim (Max Planck for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig). Other topics include the local norms surrounding red lights and the evergreen game of "go". 


 


More about Bret Beheim:


https://babeheim.com/


https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/bret-beheim/


https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=V6Ea-MkAAAAJ&hl=en


 

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Cultural Dynamics with Bret Beheim

Cultural Dynamics with Bret Beheim

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