On Memetics

Features Dawkins 16 minutes in, Blackmore 18 minutes in and others. Update: video was taken down. Perhaps try here .

Here's the recent quote from Dawkins on Twitter: I am increasingly persuaded, eg by Sue Blackmore (The Meme Machine) & @DanielDen...

I read a bit more about the "cultural intelligence hypothesis" in academia recently. Here is a quote from 2007: Humans have many...

Biologists like to classify selective events. Natural selection, artificial selection, sexual selection, kin selection, group selection and...

Davis S. Wilson's new book looks set to be about about cultural evolution. It is called This View Of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revo...

In a now-famous paper, Alan Rogers once argued that sexual recombination was largely responsible for temporal discounting via kin selection...

I recently wrote a summary article about why humans are hairless. The content is broadly similar to my much longer 2011 article on the topic...

Here is Dennett, introducing his idea of an age of post-intelligent design : The age of intelligent design is only a few thousand years ol...

I've previously discussed the idea of a cultural-cambrian-explosion - i.e. a rapid explosion of diversity followed by competitive winno...

Susan speculates about machine intelligence and the future. Thanks to Adam Ford for the video. I don't disagree with very much here....