On Memetics

Back in 2012 I wrote a landmark article on common descent in cultural evolution titled cultural common descent . Alas, my article included n...

Laland's recent book on cultural evolution is out. It is titled: Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind . T...

A recent article is claiming that internet memes are "the most significant cultural phenomena of our time". How can we assess thi...

Stuart Russell recently expressed the idea that our brains are responsible for most of what we value: So the way I think about it is, eve...

Susan Blackmore talks to a student group as part of CogNovo Summer School "ColLaboratoire" from CogNovo on Vimeo . Susan make...

A new book on cultural evolution is coming out soon: For Whose Benefit? The Biological and Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation by Patri...

Thomas C. Scott-Phillips has recently weighed in on the 'cultural attraction' issue. Acerbi Alberto drew my attention to the paper w...

I found Joe Brewer's YouTube channel. It is here . Joe and I have similar interests. He and I have reviewed some of the same books . W...

There's also a related video titled On the Origins of Genius: How Human Consciousness Evolved .

I'm generally a big fan of Dennett, though there's some controversial material here. To summarize some of my differences wiyj Denn...