On Memetics

Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution

Sunday, 14 January 2018

Resource allocation theory

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A common class of problems which agents frequently face involve resource allocation. Organisms divide their resources between growth, mainte...
Saturday, 13 January 2018

Observation evolution 101

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I've written some articles about the evolution of observers and observations. Here I would like to try and boil those articles down to s...
Thursday, 11 January 2018

Original sin

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Today I have spent some time trying to understand the doctrine of original sin. Not because of a resurgence of interest in the memetics of C...
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Tuesday, 19 December 2017

Robert Boyd: A Different Kind of Animal

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Robert Boyd's new book on cultural evolution is out. It is titled: A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species T...
Sunday, 10 December 2017

Evolutionary topology - the M.E.D.I.C.S. framework

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I've long sought better ways of explaining and teaching evolutionary theory. A recent novel approach involves evolutionary topology . On...
Monday, 4 December 2017

Memetic drift

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Genetic drift is a well-established idea in population genetics. It generally refers to stochastic changes in gene frequency that are not c...
Sunday, 3 December 2017

Quantifying memetic linkage in nursery rhymes

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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...

Memenomics

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The term "memenomics" seems like an interesting fusion of "meme" and "economics". It seems to have become a br...
Saturday, 4 November 2017

MemeInsider

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MemeInsider is a magazine about internet memes. It's available in electronic and printed versions. The home page is here . There's a...
Friday, 27 October 2017

The memetic legacy of Richard Dawkins:

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