On Memetics

Are Chimpanzees Cultural? This video offers an introduction to the history of the issue. The blurb for it reads: Does culture separate h...

Boyd and Richerson know some thing about cultural evolution, but aren't always down with memes. Here's one of their objections - fr...

I checked out some of Baba Brinkman's "Rap Guide to Evolution" videos recently. They are entertaining. Here's a selectio...

RDFRS commenter Red Dog claimed recently ( here and here ) that he hadn't encountered replies by meme advocates to a particular critici...

Mark Jordan has a new article out on the RDFRS site titled: What's in a Meme? . It's basically an introduction to memes 38 years ...

Evolutionary ethics is a topic that I've mostly avoided to date. It's not because I don't think it is relevant, or I'm not ...

I once explained my "three-system maximization" theory to David Pierce - and then asked why he cared so much about maximizing happ...

Technological determinism is, broadly speaking the idea that technology drives history. It signifies the force of convergent evolution (pa...

Malthus inspired both Darwin and Wallace in developing an understanding of evolution. Today, many treat Malthus as a bad guy - morally and...

Before the Journal of Memetics was launched, there was some discussion of memetics in The Journal of Ideas . This was published by The Inst...