Cultural Evolution
How cultural traits are copied, changed and lost: transmission biases, drift, phylogenies and the comparative method.
Galton's problem, or why cultures are not independent data points
Why cultures are not independent data points: Galton's 1888 objection to Tylor, a worked toy example, and the main fixes from careful sampling to phylogenies.
Transmission biases: the copying rules behind cultural change
How conformist, prestige and content biases steer what people copy, with the conformity recursion worked by hand and an honest look at the evidence.