On Memetics

Forbes have an article on "meatspace memetics" . It covers the use of social media tags as graffiti. For me, the article is nota...

Molecular genetics was part of the 20th century revolution in our understanding of DNA genes - starting with the work of Watson and Crick r...

The modern synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s famously fused the thinking from Darwin, Mendel and population geneticists - resulting in a pop...

In my experience, people's understanding of Darwinism usually starts off in the organic realm, expands to cover culture, then expands fu...

Dan Sperber has long argued for various disanalogies between organic and cultural evolution. Here he is with (Nicolas Claidiere) in a rece...

We've covered Jason Silva 's ventures into memetics before. Recently, he remade one of his meme-related videos - as part of one of h...

There's a substantial community of machine intelligence researchers which are oriented around the concepts of " collective intellig...

Humans judge memes, in part by the success, health and fitness of those that bear them. That makes some sense. However, the modern world al...

In 2003, Agner Fog offered the following hypothesis regarding the negative attitude towards theory within the social sciences: I will no...

r/K selection is the conventional classification scheme for the well-known phenomenon in which some organisms produce large numbers of offs...