165. Local Maxima | THUNK
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2019-03-27

Not every peak of a function is its highest value, but without being able to see the whole thing at once, it's hard to know. This has some interesting implications for...well, all sorts of things!

-Links for the Curious-

“False Vacuum,” Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum 

Studying cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory (Caldwell & Millen, 2008) - https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2008.0133 

How Traditions Live and Die, by Olivier Morin - https://books.google.com/books?id=jXERDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA225&lpg=PA225&dq=functional+traditions&source=bl&ots=k4coRPG3SA&sig=ACfU3U2yavVIjerHFR2k7gHf21jLGIB-cw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiLrcfqgo3hAhWnl-AKHd4jBTwQ6AEwD3oECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=functional%20traditions&f=false 

“Neoevolutionism,” Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoevolutionism 

Social learning mechanisms and cumulative cultural evolution. Is imitation necessary? (Caldwell & Millen, 2009) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19891752 

What is cumulative cultural evolution? (Misoudi & Thornton, 2018) - https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.0712#d3e676 

“Beautiful Losers,” NOVA - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/beautiful-losers/ 

“Experimental Evidence,” Flat Earth Society Wiki - https://wiki.tfes.org/Experimental_Evidence