"Paul Smaldino with 'A demographic theory of similarity-biased social learning' (https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/3py9c_v1) seeks to understand the cultural evolution of parochial biases in social learning: people actually prefer copying whichever group has better knowledge for local conditions. Social patterns and biases among groups... . He also explores parochialism, majority–minority dynamics, immigration adaptation, and the long-term effects of colonialism.."
