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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Simon Rella\nhosted by Tim Browning\nAbstract: Athleti
 c performance offers a uniquely quantifiable setting for studying cultural
  evolution\, linking record statistics and evolutionary theory. Analyzing 
 Olympic records and endurance sports\, we find broadly universal patterns:
  linear progress in record values and counts across much of the 20th centu
 ry. Population growth explains part of this trend but cannot alone account
  for sport evolution. Instead\, progress reflects both expanding participa
 tion and evolutionary dynamics of innovation\, inheritance\, and selection
 . Applying concepts from population genetics\, we find that variance predi
 cts response\, consistent with a heritability-like signal in performance. 
 At the level of extremes\, world records occur in clustered bursts and we 
 propose a record process with restart reproducing this burstiness.
LOCATION:Central Bldg / O1 / Mondi 3 (I01.O1.010) and Zoom\, ISTA
ORGANIZER:
SUMMARY:Simon Rella: Thesis Defense: Adaptive Processes in Biology and Cult
 ure: Models of Evolving Vaccine Resistance and the Record Statistics of In
 novation
URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6015
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