Friday, 28 February 2025

The problem with Robin Hanson's cultural drift

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Robin Hanson has developed an interest in cultural evolution. I've previously blogged about that here . However, I am not sure about som...
Sunday, 29 September 2024

Why does the human Y chromosome share more sequences with gorillas than chimpanzees?

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This post does not have much to do with memes, but it does relate to early human evolution. In particular it discusses reticular great ap...
Tuesday, 27 August 2024

Part Primate, Part Pig

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In 1976, Richard Dawkins wrote: "Most of what is unusual about man can be summed up in one word: 'culture'." Genetic diff...
Saturday, 24 August 2024

Memetic strategies

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Here are a few lists of meme-related strategies. The first list was inspired bt an Alex Mesoudi paper that laid out a fairly conventional vi...
Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Robin Hanson - Beware cultural drift

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Robin Hanson has become interested in cultural evolution in 2024. He read Not By Genes Alone , The Secret of our Success , Cognitive Gadget...

Rob Boyd & Pete Richerson - Cultural Evolution, Human Brain Increases, AGI, & Fertility Declines

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A new Boyd & Richerson interview:
Thursday, 11 April 2024

Are AIs really our descendants?

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While I'm criticising the positions of Robin Hanson , I reviewed his 2023 article titled: " AIs Will Be Our Mind Children " - ...

The demographic transition revisited

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I have an existing article about " Memes and the demographic transition ". It has a number of pointers and references, but I revie...
Thursday, 21 March 2024

Rob Boyd - A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species

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I read through some of the the reviews of Rob Boyd's 2017 book "A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species...

Meme adjectives

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A recent "Know Your Meme" editorial reminded me that I had never seen a list of meme categories or meme adjectives. I thought I w...