# What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Helena Miton]]
- Full Title: What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution
- Category: #articles
- URL: http://nautil.us/blog/what-misspellings-reveal-about-cultural-evolution

## Highlights
- In other words, I start with an assumption that cultural evolution follows different paths than biological evolution. Stable cultural forms do not have to result from close replication; they can emerge continuously out of subtle changes.
- As fallible as human transmission can be, the fact that our mistakes in transmitting cultural information occur in systematic and directed ways, rather than purely randomly, is opening a new pathway to understanding continuity and change within the field of cultural evolution.
    - Tags: [[evolution]]