ROBUSTNESS AND EVOLVABILITY IN CULTURAL SYSTEMS: IDENTIFYING ROBUST CULTURAL ELEMENTS AND MAPPING CULTURAL INHERITANCE SYSTEMS BY YASHA MICAH HARTBERG BS, Texas A&M University 1994 MS, Texas A&M University 1999 DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biology in the Graduate School of Binghamton University State University of New York 2016