(if you look for my chapter in the table of content, I have been anglo-saxonified as Simon Carrington ;D)

Interestingly, people applying cultural evolution to archaeology (evolutionary archaeologists 😅?), probably closer to fields like geostatistics and so on, have been using null model similar to IBD models for a while (cf early 2010s papers from @ercrema.bsky.social, Shennan, etc.)

The authors argue that isolation by distance would be a much more reasonable null model for evolutionary biology to build on, now that we have more computing power, and I can't agree more with them (also can't wait for a follow up article on that ;), hopefully they will be one)

Btw what I’m finding endearing in an (appropriately) old-fashioned way is that the entirety of our collaboration happened over one 100-message email thread spanning about three months.

nameless but blessed by god!

mutt?

"academic-hard-workout" one of my highlight of 2024 tbh :)
We need a cultural evolution meeting in Trento soon, @oliviermorin.bsky.social I'm sure you can convince Alberto to do that!

definitly! I mentionned it in a talk in Durham last week after seeing the version in Alife! wanted to chat about it with @missdaffodil.bsky.social but I didn't realized she was back in Germany :)

and thanks you all for linking cultural evolution and alife! <3

staruday c'est samedi on s'entend

Note that in the paper the author do not link the ABM to the data showed this picture. It's more of a (very week imo) qualitative comparison ; they don't actually test if the link can actually be made.