On Memetics

Transcript: Hi. I'm Tim Tyler and this is a video about Darwinian physics. In the 1980s there was a movement to incorporate eleme...

The term "somatic selection" refers to selection within bodies. It's used to refer to the way that somatic cells face differe...

The term cultural lag refers to the notion that culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations. It is an old and well-establ...

Boyd and Richerson's conception of cultural evolution seems to have become on of the most popular ones in academia. It is one of the clo...

Mark Ridley's "Evolution" textbook excluded three forms of change from its definition of "evolution". These were: ...

Copying is everywhere in biology. It is most obviously seen in DNA replication. Electrical signals are copied inside brains whenever an ax...

It would be quite nice to say that repology is the science of copying - covering reproduction, replication and repetition. However, repetit...

I've criticized the (bad) Claidiere/Sperber 2014 paper here recently - in my article titled: Is cultural evolution different because it...

With articles like: Generalised genetics ; Generalised epidemiology ; Generalised symbiosis ; Universal Darwinism ; Universal selection ;...

Divergent selection is selection which pushes traits in different directions in different sub-populations. Selection on gamete size is a cl...