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The official account for the Cultural Evolution Society. Our mission is to promote the study of cultural evolution in research and practice. www.culturalevolutionsociety.org
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This was a fun paper to work on that combines two of my favorite topics: music and cultural evolution. We include a very simple model of continuous norm evolution that hopefully could be useful down the road. osf.io/preprints/ps...

The cultural evolution of distortion in music. By Greg Bryant and Paul Smaldino.
Here, we describe the cultural evolution of musical distortion, a noisy manipulation of instrumental and vocal timbre that emulates nonlinear phenomena (NLP) present in the vocal signals of many animals. We suggest that listeners’ sensitivity to NLP has facilitated technological developments that have enhanced musical sound through specific distorted sonic manipulations, which further evolved culturally via the need for groups to both coordinate internally and differentiate themselves from other groups. To support this idea we present an agent-based model of norm evolution illustrating possible dynamics of continuous traits such as timbral distortion in music, dependent on i) a functional optimum, ii) intra-group cohesion and inter-group differentiation, and iii) groupishness for assortment and social learning. Overall we offer a preliminary account of how cultural transmission dynamics can lead to diversity in musical sounds and genres.
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Big news, CES elections will launch tomorrow morning! Voting by society members will close on August 31st at 11:59 PM BST. There are two positions (President-Elect and Student Representative) to be filled. Please take a few moments to participate.

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ICYMI the recording of Kristina Beck's excellent @eslr.bsky.social@culturalevolsoc.bsky.socialwww.youtube.com/watch?v=70h_...

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ACE Early Career Research Grants now open - Cultural Evolution Society
ACE Early Career Research Grants now open - Cultural Evolution Society

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A big thank you to all the speakers of @eslr.bsky.social@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social@roope.bsky.social@dominikdeffner.bsky.socialwww.youtube.com/@CulturalEvo...

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last day to nominate!

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Today is the deadline for self-nominations for President and Student Rep of the Cultural Evolution Society! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

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