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	Memetics

skwirlinator

7-1-2008 1:40 PM

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memetics, meme, cultural evolution, variation, selection, information

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7-1-2008 5:30 PM

dstruve

I have to say, this is interesting.

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<B>Memetics:</B> the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMES.html">Cultural evolution, including the <A href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/EVOLEPIST.html">evolution of knowledge</A>, can be modelled through the same <A href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/BVSR.html">basic principles of variation and selection</A> that underly biological <A href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/EVOLUT.html">evolution</A>. This implies a shift from genes as units of biological
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