On Memetics
Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
Sylvain Magne: a new theoretical model
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I've covered the work of Sylvain Magne here before, see: Sylvain Magne: information vs codes Sylvain Magne: What is a meme? Here...
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Saturday, 28 March 2020
Jason da Silva: When fear goes viral
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Jason offers a Coronavirus spiel with a heavy side helping of memetics.
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Developmental knobs
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Development features a number of what are fairly widely called "developmental knobs". A "developmental knob" represents ...
Sunday, 13 October 2019
Panmemetics?
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An article by Maarten Boudry proposes that the term "panmemetics" be used for the memetics visualized by Susan Blackmore - which ...
Wednesday, 9 October 2019
The Organism-Centered Approach to Cultural Evolution
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I found a paper from 2015 that offers a reply to the criticism of mine, that cultural evolution in academia is "host centric". I s...
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Geoffrey Miller on who benefits
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Another passage from Geoffrey Miller's meme critique (see also the previous post ) reads: genes and memes are not the only alternativ...
Geoffrey Miller on memes
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Geoffrey Miller comes across as yet another evolutionary psychologist who is clueless about memes and cultural evolution. However, I recentl...
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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