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    "pk": 28609,
    "title": "Inductive Biases Constrain Cumulative Cultural Evolution",
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    "abstract": "Cumulative cultural evolution is a distinctively human formof information-processing that endows our societies with im-probable and efficient technologies. But how objective is thisprocess? A widely held conjecture is that human cognitivebiases can constrain cumulative cultural evolution, and there-fore shape our discoveries. We present a Bayesian analysis ofa simple form of cumulative cultural evolution. This modelallows us to formulate and test the theoretical conjecture inan experimental setting. Across a series of behavioural ex-periments, we show that people’s inductive biases constrain apopulation’s ability to discover counter-intuitive virtual tech-nologies in a simple search problem. Our analysis highlightsformal relationships between cumulative cultural evolution,Bayesian inference, and stochastic optimization.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "cumulative cultural evolution; inductive biases;optimization; computation; Bayes; cultural evolution;"
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    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/25w59934",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Bill",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Thompson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Univeristy of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Thomas",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "Griffiths",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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