On Memetics

Laor and Jablonka devote much of their review of Mesoudi's "Cultural Evolution" book to a call for development and systems th...

I read this paper recently: Mesoudi, Alex, O'Brien MJ, Lyman RL, VanPool TL. (2010) Cultural traits as units of analysis . Heres the ...

In a recent article titled: " A Simple Rule for Cultural Evolution ", Samuel Arbesman gets in on the issue of whether "ontoge...

Transcript: Hi, I'm Tim Tyler, and this is a review of this book: Cultural evolution by Alex Mesoudi. This is a great book about t...

Many modern academic students of cultural evolution seem to share a common problem with understanding how cultural evolution operates. Thoug...

Mesoudi and Jensen (2010) offer a four-point summary of the evidence for cultural group selection. It doesn't seem terribly impressive....

Many enthusiasts for the idea that culture evolves also seem to favour the idea of group selection. Ed Wilson has returned to the "g...

Alex Mesoudi recently wrote a paper about the possibility of a ceiling on cumulative cultural evolution. The abstract says, in part: Yet p...

Now that cultural evolution is making such good progress in academia, can memeticists just leap onboard? I don't think so - not just yet...

I tracked down Alex Mesoudi's take on memes. He describes memetics as being a "fad". In Cultural Evolution , page 42, he says...

Alex Mesoudi - The Experimental Study of Human Cultural Evolution. Abstract and video from here: http://drghirlanda.wordpress.com/2...

Alex Mesoudi's forthcoming book on cultural evolution is scheduled to be published later this year (2011). The book looks set to be c...