The origin and the emergence of social conventions has been a problem child for cognitive scientists. They've often assumed that institutionalized mechanisms like figure leadership or incentives for collective agreement around norms, these are what are required to become prevalent. Trends emerge without someone telling us what to do without a collective conversation. So this kind of sort of self organization has been really difficult to demonstrate, especially on a meaningful scale.

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