On Memetics

TruthHawk is a new((ish) blog. It claims to be abut memetics, society and self-development. The blog has been going for 8 months at the tim...

The organic realm doesn't have much of a problem with monopolies. If any one creature becomes very popular, parasites rise up and take i...

Here is S. J. Gould in 1996 on why memes won't work (35 minutes in): I think Brenda put her finger on exactly why the meme concept is ...

Three hours of meme criticism from Jean-Francois Gariépy: The audio is not always 100% clear, but he provides an executive summary: In...

It's apparently difficult for people to publicly admit that they were wrong. While cultural evolution has seen its share of criticisms o...

2017 talk by Daniel. There are plenty of memes in the second half of the video. The following QA is available here .

Evolution is notoriously a competitive business. Some adaptations have evolved for the specific purpose of doing-in competitors. There are m...

Bill Hamilton famously was one of the first evolutionary biologists to take parasites seriously - seeing their influence everywhere. Many ha...

In a 2016 post titled Shared interests of unrelated symbionts I discussed how unrelated symbionts often had shared interests, resulting in ...

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