Stabilization of cultural innovations depends on population density: Testing an epidemiological model of cultural evolution against a global dataset of rock art sites and climate-based estimates of ancient population densities

• Richard Walker ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: richard.walker@epfl.ch (RW); anders.eriksson@ut.ee (AE)

  ¶‡ RW and AE are joint authors.

  Affiliation Blue Brain Project, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2123-5565

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• Anders Eriksson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: richard.walker@epfl.ch (RW); anders.eriksson@ut.ee (AE)

  ¶‡ RW and AE are joint authors.

  Affiliation Institute of Genomics (cGEM), University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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• Camille Ruiz,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, The Philippines

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4443-3313

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• Taylor Howard Newton,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Blue Brain Project, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Francesco Casalegno

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Blue Brain Project, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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