Cultural symbiology bibliography

Most memeticists understand cultural symbiology - but who else does?

Here's a provisional list of related works (in date order):

• Cloak, Ted (1975) Is a cultural ethology possible?
• Dawkins, Richard (1976) The Selfish Gene
• Kortlandt, Frederik (1983) A parasitological view of non-constructible sets
• Delius, Juan D. (1989) Of mind memes and brain bugs, a natural history of culture. In W. A. Koch (Ed) The Nature of Culture. Bochum, Germany, Bochum Publications. 26-79.
  
• Delius, Juan D. (1990) On the Natural History of Culture: Gene and Meme. In: Zeitschrift fr Semiotik; 1990, 12, 4, 307-321.
  
• Delius, Juan D. (1991) The nature of culture. In: "The Tinbergen Legacy". Edited by Dawkins, Halliday, and Dawkins. Chapman and Hall: New York .
  
• Dennett, Daniel (1995) Darwin's Dangerous Idea
• Lynch, Aaron (1996) Thought Contagion
• Brodie, Richard (1996) Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
• John Watkins (1998) Towards a reconsideration of social evolution: symbiosis and its implications for economics
• Ianneo, Francesco (1998) The Symbiotic Mind. A Memetic Perspective on the Human Consciousness.
• Blackmore, Susan (1999) The Meme Machine
• Cullen, Ben (2000) Contagious ideas: on evolution, culture, archaeology, and cultural virus theory
• Hull, David (2001) Science and Selection
• van Driem, George (2001) The Language Organism. The Leiden theory of language evolution.
• J. M. Balkin (2003) Cultural Software - A Theory of Ideology.
• Kortlandt, Frederik Herman Henri (2003) The origin and nature of the linguistic parasite
• van Driem, George (2005) The Origin of Language - Symbiosism and Symbiomism
• Gontier, Nathalie (2006) Evolutionary epistemology and the origin and evolution of language – taking symbiogenesis seriously.
• Gontier, Nathalie (2007) Universal symbiogenesis: a genuine alternative to universal selectionist accounts.
• van Driem, George (2007) Symbiosism, Symbiomism and the Leiden definition of the meme
• van Driem, George (2008) The language organism: Parasite or mutualist?
• Leigh, Hoyle (2010) Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness: Toward an Integrative Model
• Changizi, Mark (2011) Harnessed - How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man
• Tyler, Tim (2011) Memetics - Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution
• Gontier, Nathalie (2012) Introducing universal symbiogenesis.

Boyd and Richerson also briefly acknowledge cultural symbiology in a number of their works. Most prominently in:

• Boyd and Richerson (2005) Not by Genes Alone.

In some of his articles (e.g. here) Geroge van Driem, traces back the history of cultural symbiology to 19th century linguists. There's an associated video of that here.

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