Comment on Memes?

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:02:56 GMT

Memetics consists of terminology and framework for cultural evolution. Cultural evolution covers a lot of hypotheses. For instance there's the hypothesis that the human brain swelled up to accommodate memes or the hypothesis that memes made humans sociable - since they need social contact between their hosts in order for them to reproduce - or they hypothesis that memes were implicated in the high frequency of speciation among our ancestors - just as songbirds speciate frequently. There's quite a lot of associated hypotheses - no doubt some are correct and some are not.

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