Greetings!

 

I came across your blog posting on True/Slant this morning and thought that your interests may intersect with my own.  I am a second year graduate student at Binghamton University studying cultural evolution with David Sloan Wilson.  In particular, I am interested in understanding why cultures are resistant to change.  I am still in the early stages of forming an evolutionary theory for why we should expect cultural recalcitrance  in certain contexts.  Nevertheless, I have collected enough background material to suspect that improving information flow as you suggest may have only a limited effect.

 

I would welcome a dialog with you about these topics.

 

Sincerely,

Yasha Hartberg

Department of Biology

Binghamton University