On Memetics

Here's Herb Gintis on the topic : In large democratic elections, the selfish individual will not vote because the costs of voting are p...

The latest Royal Society Theme Issue is out. It's titled: "New thinking: the evolution of human cognition" The issue'...

The blurb reads: Professor Richard Dawkins reveals how he came to write his explosive first book The Selfish Gene, a work that was to div...

The Institute for Cultural Evolution has coughed up for a domain: http://www.cultural-evolution.org/ . Their byline: “Nothing in politics...

Update 2013-12-30: there's now a more up-to-date version of this article here . No memes today - but I should probably comment on the ...

Pinker - in his recent, scientifically mistaken article about group selection - writes: What all this means is that so-called group selec...

Another book on Universal Darwinism is out this September. It is Evolution's Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific S...

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

A new book on Universal Selection is coming out in September. It is called: " The Origin of Everything via Universal Selection, or t...

I was frustrated to see Boyd and Richerson trotting out their list of the "main differences between genes and culture" in their pa...