On Memetics

I stumbled across a paper today (by Karim Baraghith) on a topic near to my heart. It addresses the question of: what counts as a population ...

John Campbell's The Knowing Universe is out now. Readers may be familiar with John Campbell because of his previous works, particularl...

Biologists categorize life into kingdoms. Animal, vegetable, fungal - and so on. Memetics proposes that culture is alive too. "Memes sh...

Male homosexuality has long been regarded as being an evolutionary puzzle. Around 4 percent of men are homosexuals. They have on average fiv...

I've been reading about kissing - in particular about why people kiss. Kissing is not unique to humans, but humans and chimpanzees seem ...

Cultural kin selection often uses the same psychological mechanisms that are involved with kin selection. For example, if you want your fac...

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

I've covered the work of Sylvain Magne here before, see: Sylvain Magne: information vs codes Sylvain Magne: What is a meme? Here...

Jason offers a Coronavirus spiel with a heavy side helping of memetics.

Development features a number of what are fairly widely called "developmental knobs". A "developmental knob" represents ...