On Memetics

Robert Boyd's new book on cultural evolution is out. It is titled: A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species T...

I've long sought better ways of explaining and teaching evolutionary theory. A recent novel approach involves evolutionary topology . On...

Genetic drift is a well-established idea in population genetics. It generally refers to stochastic changes in gene frequency that are not c...

I created my pages about memetic linkage and memetic hitchhiking way back in 2011. However, I haven't seen much in the way of attempts...

The term "memenomics" seems like an interesting fusion of "meme" and "economics". It seems to have become a br...

MemeInsider is a magazine about internet memes. It's available in electronic and printed versions. The home page is here . There's a...

In my 2011 video/essay title " Dawkins Dangerous Idea ", I approvingly quoted Paul McFedries as saying: Richard Dawkins became f...

Virtue Signaling by Geoffrey Miller I'm pleased to see an increased number of evolutionists adopting the "virtue signalling...

Here's the late Marvin Minsky (1994) in " Will Robots Inherit the Earth? ": In the past, we have tended to see ourselves as a...

Large-scale cloning is common in both organic and cultural evolution. Multi-cellular organisms are largely clones of a single genotype, thou...