On Memetics

Language should always have been the king of the subjects studied by students of memetics and cultural evolution. Speech and writing have b...

According to some famous folk: Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and processes that led to chang...

Language ought to be the jewel in the crown for students of cultural evolution and memetics. So far, it hasn't always turned out that...

The invention of speech was a fantastic boon to memes, leading directly to writing, the modern era and its revolutionizing of the biosphere....

Kenny Smith: "The evolution of language and the language faculty". It's a generally excellent talk on the cultural evoluti...

Jason Silva gets his memes on in his latest video. It's pretty cool. My thought while watching was: is our evolutionary success re...

Transcript: Hi. I'm Tim Tyler, and this is a review of this book: Wired for Culture by Mark Pagel. The book says it is about how...

It is widely believed that cultural evolution goes much faster than the evolution of human DNA can manage. In my book on memetics , I disc...

The videos from the 2012 EvoLang IX conference are up. Apparently, the missing videos should be uploaded shortly. Enjoy.