Saturday, 6 July 2019

Stephen Shennan: Darwinian Archaeology, Culture, And The Origins of Agriculture

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Michael Muthukrishna: Human Culture, The Cultural Brain, And Political Corruption

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Robert Boyd: Gene-culture Coevolution, Cultural Evolution

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Peter Richerson: Biology and Culture, Cultural Evolution, Cognition, and Group Selection

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Richerson is asked about his beefs with memetics in the video. His #1 point is that memetics emphasized that memes are maladaptive pathoge...

Susan Blackmore: How Memetics Works

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One critical point here: Blackmore compares and constrasts memes with the theories of Boyd and Richerson. Around 6 minutes in she says tha...
Friday, 5 April 2019

How to Go Viral The Art of the Meme (2019)

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Features Dawkins 16 minutes in, Blackmore 18 minutes in and others. Update: video was taken down. Perhaps try here .
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Monday, 4 March 2019

Dawkins: memes are even more important than I dreamed

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Here's the recent quote from Dawkins on Twitter: I am increasingly persuaded, eg by Sue Blackmore (The Meme Machine) & @DanielDen...
Friday, 23 November 2018

What happened to the cultural intelligence hypothesis?

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I read a bit more about the "cultural intelligence hypothesis" in academia recently. Here is a quote from 2007: Humans have many...
Sunday, 18 November 2018

Self selection, other selection

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Biologists like to classify selective events. Natural selection, artificial selection, sexual selection, kin selection, group selection and...
Saturday, 10 November 2018

David. S. Wilson: This View Of Life

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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...
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