On Memetics

According to some famous folk: Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and processes that led to chang...

John Wilkins takes on Max Tegmark and Richard Dawkins - for claiming that their subject matter is informational - in his recent article In...

One of the things which I associate with the symbiology revolution of the 1960s and 1980s is a much bigger emphasis on the significance of ...

Practically every phylomemetic tree I have ever seen has illustrated branching - but not joining. However, it is well known that cultural ...

One of YouTube's 2014 April fools jokes involved memes. Their associated article comes with the title: Analysis Shows 2014 Could Be Hu...

This is a Seth Godin video from 2007 titled: "How to get your ideas to spread". Seth Godin wrote the well-known book " Unle...

Impressive work: Version 2.0 . Version 1.0 . For the full-size image I recommend that you click here for version 1 and here for ve...

I looked at what memetics-related stories have made slashdot in 2014. There's: Algorithm Distinguishes Memes from Ordinary Informatio...

Critics of memetics have characterised it as a type of "Darwinian paranoia". Here's Peter Godfrey Smith : How did the gene...

It was once claimed that Marijuana was a " gateway drug ". Scientists seem to have mixed feelings about this claim - but there...