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work_vggjnyhgvbcf5jxyvgch3xz4bm	Marshall Abrams	Coherence, Muller's Ratchet, and the Maintenance of Culture	2015	17	.pdf	application/pdf	6452	549	62	with the original argument may in fact be instances in which mutually supporting cultural variants are learned from different individuals. the second puzzle by arguing that probabilistic models of epistemological coherence can be reinterpreted as models of mutual support between cultural variants. real-world cases that seem to conflict with the original argument may in fact be instances in which mutually supporting cultural variants are learned from different Figure 1: Cultural transmission from randomly chosen "parents" in discrete generations, with time moving from top to bottom. In ESELS' model, this is 𝑝, the probability of transmitting the cultural variant 𝐶 without error. This close relationship between ESELS' model and Waxman and Loewe's truncated ratchet shows that failing to learn from a single cultural parent is so closely what would happen in ESELS' single-parent model if we increased the transmission probability 𝑝: It would take longer for culture to disappear, but it would still	./cache/work_vggjnyhgvbcf5jxyvgch3xz4bm.pdf	./txt/work_vggjnyhgvbcf5jxyvgch3xz4bm.txt