Sunday, 24 May 2020

Synopsis of my replicator critique

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For most traditional meme enthusiasts, memes are "the new replicators" - or are practically defined in terms of the Dawkins replic...
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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