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Tasmanian effect: a standalone construct

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Cultural evolution

the model that small, isolated populations lose complex skills over time because too few learners exist to maintain them, while larger populations accumulate them.

In cultural evolution, Tasmanian effect refers to the model that small, isolated populations lose complex skills over time because too few learners exist to maintain them, while larger populations accumulate them. This meaning comes from Henrich (2004) in American Antiquity.[1]

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References

Henrich, J. (2004). Demography and Cultural Evolution: How Adaptive Cultural Processes Can Produce Maladaptive Losses: The Tasmanian Case. American Antiquity, 69(2), 197-214. https://doi.org/10.2307/4128416

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