Music evolves (culturally!) from noise to song under the influence of human selection
Posted 24 Jun 2012 / 0Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences “Evolution of music by public choice”
Science Now “Computer Program ‘Evolves’ Music From Noise”
I am excited to read this article in full. What’s clear is that this is a pretty “canned” version of cultural evolution, but it is exciting to see this cultural evolution being studied systematically. They even work the Price Equation into their analysis; I am curious to see what that is about!
A Minor Post, Cultural Evolution, Multilevel Selection, Music