The decline of David and Mary: New inventiveness driving the diversification of popular culture
Monday, February 20, 2012 - 08:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Inventiveness in the naming of babies in the United States suddenly increased in the late 1980s, having changed little during the previous hundred years. A new study from the Universities of Bristol and Durham considers what this tells us about the competing forces at work in popular culture: globalization and local innovation.