On Memetics

Elaine Morgan popularized the idea that humans are "aquatic apes" - who spent part of their evolutionary history in water. The aqu...

Cultural group selection has led to much confusion . One of the associated confusions is the idea that group selection is more prevalent in...

I've finished reading and reviewing Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex Wo...

Darwin Does Physics - by John Campbell - is now widely available. The blurb reads: A largely unnoticed scientific revolution has occurr...

One criticism of Universal Darwinism is that the core principles it is based on - namely heredity, mutation and selection - are too general...

One systematic problem I have noticed with many with social scientists is that they don't always seem to understand the virtue of simpl...

Here's Philon on factory-produced organisms : The biotechnical ability to design novel organisms may well replace the *reproduction* o...

People seem to regularly declare that advanced creatures won't have sex or gender. For example, Mark Ridley argued for genderless ...

I've already written a large article about the important topic of delegation in evolution. However, because that article focuses on del...

My idea that memes led to big brains has been compared to Susan Blackmore's idea that memes led to big brains - as presented in The Mem...