Concept
The null model for spread: what propagation looks like with no selection at all — random copying plus rich-get-richer accumulation. Most meme variants follow it. Selection is what you detect as departure from this baseline. (Catalog gap flagged by the info-evolution extraction.)
Connections
- Defined in: Selection As The Other Engine
- Discussed in: Virality Trade-off, Ch 5b — Selection As The Other Engine
- Evidenced by: Information Evolution in Social Media, Mutations of Bacteria from Virus Sensitivity to Virus Resistance
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