memetic simulation Perl scripts

From: Derek Gatherer (derek-gatherer@usa.net)
Date: Mon Jul 03 2000 - 08:51:36 BST

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    http://www.geocities.com/derek_gatherer/supp.htm

    has links to a couple of memetic simulation scripts.

    The first one does horizontal replication. The user can enter values for
    population size, number of initial 'demonstrators', number of successful
    demonstration/conversion events per demonstrator, and the number of cultural
    generations over which to run the simulation. Output is dumped to screen.

    The second script does simulations of gene-meme interaction, specifically it
    simulates the interaction of memetic taboos with a (hypothesised) recessive
    genetic homosexuality. Heterozygote advantage can be added and varied, and
    the level of the taboo can be varied, as well as the number of genetic
    generations over which the simulation runs. Output is dumped to an Excel
    spreadsheet.

    Please do have a go with these and let me know if there are any bugs etc.

    Derek

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