On Memetics

"Cumulative cultural evolution" has been identified by many authors as the thing that sets humans apart from animals. Animals ha...

Nature makes conflict virtual, as part of its drive towards efficiency. In animal ethology, virtualised conflict is seen in terms of threat ...

Transcript: Hi. I'm Tim Tyler, and this is a review of this book: The Mocking Memes:A Basis for Automated Intelligence by Evan Loui...

The web site says: “The Evolution of Religion and Morality” is a grant awarded to a group of directors from UBC-SFU’s Centre for the Stud...

Delegation is an important type of biological interaction . In general, optimizers often find it beneficial to delegate tasks or functions ...

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

Phylogenetic inertia refers to the way genetic traits tend to stay the same, lagging behind environmental changes. Phylomemetic inertia is...

Transcript: Hi. I'm Tim Tyler, and this is a review of this book: The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind...

Cultural epidemiology has found some new converts recently - in the area of combating violence. Here's cureviolence.org : Treating v...

One argument against memetics is that evolutionary theorists should not go in for controversy - and should instead close ranks to concentrat...