This is a collection of references associated with my 2011 "Memetics" book - which is now available.
A - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]- Albinus, Lars (2006) Dangerous Ideas: the Spell of Breaking the Spell. [criticism]
- Alvarez, Mark (2010) Know Your Meme? From Pseudo-Science to Viral Lulz. [criticism]
- Amundson, Ronald (1989) The trials and tribulations of selectionist explanations. In K. Hahlweg & C. A. Hooker (Eds.), Issues in evolutionary epistemology (pp. 413-432). Albany: State University of New York Press. [criticism]
- Anees, Munawar A. (2005) Memetic Evolution: An Apology for
Monocultural Reductionism? Cultural Evolution | Center for Human Evolution Proceedings of Workshop 4. [criticism]
- Atran, Scott (2001) The trouble with memes: Inference versus imitation in cultural creation. Human Nature 12: 351-381. [criticism]
- Atran, Scott (2004a) In gods we trust: the evolutionary landscape of religion. [criticism]
- Atran, Scott and Norenzayan, Ara (2004b) Religion’s evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion. BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES (2004) 27, 713–770. [criticism]
- Aunger, Robert (2005a) What’s the Matter with Memes? [criticism]
B - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]- Barbrook, Richard & Lynch, Aaron (1996) Memes: Self-Replicants or Mysticism? Wired A debate. [criticism]
- Barbrook, Richard (1997) Cyberbollocks: trashing memetics and the cyborg cult. [criticism]
- Barbrook, Richard (1997) Never Mind the Cyberbollocks... critique of the memes concept. [criticism]
- Barbrook, Richard (1997) Memesis Critique. [criticism]
- Barbrook, Richard (1997) The Fallacies of Memetics. [criticism]
- Bateman, Chris (2005) The Trouble with Memes. [blog][criticism]
- Benitez-Bribiesca, L (2001) Memetics: a dangerous idea. Interciencia. [criticism]
- Benzon, William L. (2002) Colorless Green Homunculi. A review of The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think by Robert Aunger. [criticism]
- Benzon, William L. (2010) Cultural Evolution 1: How “Thick” is Culture? [criticism][blog]
- Benzon, William L. (2010) Cultural Evolution 2: A Phenomenological Gut Check on Gene-Culture Coevolution. [criticism][blog]
- Benzon, William L. (2010) Cultural Evolution 3: Performances and Memes. [criticism][blog]
- Benzon, William L. (2010) Where are memes? [criticism][blog]
- Benzon, William L. (2010) Memetic Sophistry. [criticism][blog]
- Benzon, William L. (2011) Q: Why is the Dawkins Meme Idea so Popular? [criticism][blog]
- Blackburn, Simon (2008) Thinking animal. [criticism]
- Blackmore, Susan, J., Malik, Kenan and Tallis, Raymond (2004) The Great Debate: Genes, Memes, Minds. The RSA. [criticism]
- Taffel, Sy (2011) Media Ecology, Memetics and the Evolution of Ideas. [criticism][blog]
- Bloch, Maurice (2000) A well-disposed anthropologist's problems with memes. In: Darwinizing culture: The status of memetics as a science, ed. R. Aunger, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. [criticism]
- Bloch, Maurice (2005) Essays on Cultural Transmission. (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology) [book][criticism]
- Boone, James L. and Eric Alden Smith (1998) Is It Evolution Yet? A Critique of Evolutionary Archaeology. Current Anthropology. Vol. 39, No. S1, Special Issue The Neanderthal Problem and the Evolution of Human Behavior (June 1998), pp. S141-S174. [criticism]
- Bradie, Michael. (2000) Do memes make sense? No. Free Inquiry, Summer 2000. [criticism]
- Bradie, Michael. (2003) The ‘new science of memetics’: The case against. Think, 2: 27-30. [criticism]
- Bradie, Michael and Harms, William (2008) Evolutionary Epistemology
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [criticism]
- Briggs, William M. (2011) Why Memes Are Stupid: The Short Version [criticism][blog]
- Brown, Andrew (1999) The Darwin wars: the scientific battle for the soul of man. [book][criticism]
- Brown, Andrew (2009) Serious objections to memes. [criticism]
- Brown, Andrew (2011) Aping Mankind by Raymond Tallis – review. [criticism]
- Bruggemann, Haley (2005) Memes and Individuality. [criticism]
- Bryant, J.M. (2004) An evolutionary social science? A skeptic’s brief, theoretical and substantive. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34 (4), 451-92. [criticism]
- Burman, Jeremy Trevelyan (2012) The misunderstanding of memes: Biography of an unscientific object, 1976–1999. [criticism]
C - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]D - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]- Daly, Martin (1998) Some Caveats about Cultural Transmission Models. Human Ecology 10 (1982),
402–404. [criticism]
- Davies, Paul (2004) Undermining Free Will. [criticism]
- Deacon, Terrence W. (1997) The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Human Brain. London, Penguin. [book][criticism]
- Deacon, Terrence W. (1999) Memes as Signs. The trouble with memes (and what to do about it). [criticism]
- Deacon, Terrence W. (2003) Memes as Signs in the Dynamic Logic of Semiosis: Molecular Science meets Computation Theory. [criticism]
- Dibdin, Michael (2006) Why I've lost faith in Richard Dawkins. [criticism]
- Donald, Merlin (1998) Hominid enculturation and cognitive evolution. In Cognition and material culture : the archaeology of symbolic storage. [criticism]
- Downey , Greg (2008) We hate memes, pass it on… [criticism]
- Downey , Greg (2008) Brain-culture, memes, and choosing examples. [criticism]
E - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]F - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]- Flinn, Mark V. and Alexander, R. D. (1982) Culture theory: The developing synthesis from biology. Human Ecology, Vol. 10, No. 3, Biology and Culture (Sep.), pp. 383-400. [criticism]
- Fracchia, Joseph and Lewontin, R. C. (1999) Does Culture Evolve? History and Theory, Vol. 38, No. 4, Theme Issue 38: The Return of Science: Evolutionary Ideas and History, pp. 52-78. [criticism]
- Fracchia, Joseph and Lewontin, R. C. (1999) The price of metaphor. History and theory (Weleyan University) 44 (44): 14–29. [criticism]
G - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]- Gabora, Liane M. (2010a) Why blind-variation and selective-retention is an inappropriate explanatory framework for creativity [criticism]
- Gabora, Liane M. (2011a) An analysis of the Blind Variation and Selective Retention (BVSR) theory of creativity. Creativity Research Journal. [criticism]
- Gabora, Liane M. (2011b) Five clarifications about cultural evolution. Journal of Cognition and Culture. [criticism]
- Gabora, Liane M. (2011c) How a Generation Was Misled About Natural Selection. [criticism]
- Gabora, Liane M., Leijnen, S. & Ghyczy, T. (2011c) The relationship bewteen creativity, imitation, and cultural diversity. International Journal of Software and Informatics. [criticism]
- Gardner, Martin (2000) Kilroy was here. A review of The Meme Machine by Susan J. Blackmore. Los Angeles Times, March 5. [criticism]
- Gare, Arran (2012) Darwinian Creativity and Memetics (review). [criticism]
- Gil-White, Francisco J., (2006) Common misunderstandings of memes (and genes) The promise and the limits of the genetic analogy to cultural transmission processes. [criticism]
- Gil-White, Francisco J., (2006) Let the Meme be (a Meme): Insisting too much on the Genetic Analogy will Turn it into a Straightjacket. [criticism]
- Goodman, Kevin (2011) Book Review of Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution: Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory [criticism]
- Gould, Stephen Jay (1994) Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism. Scientific American , 271, October, 4. pp. 84-91. [criticism]
- Gould, Stephen Jay (1999) Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History. [criticism]
- Gray, John (2008) The atheist delusion [criticism]
H - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]- Hallpike, C. R. (1986) The principles of social evolution. Clarendon Press, Oxford, U.K. [book][criticism]
- Hallpike, C. R. (2004) Memetics: a Darwinian pseudo-science. [criticism]
- Hallpike, C. R. (2011) On Primitive Society: And Other Forbidden Topics. [book][criticism]
- Harms, William F. (2004) Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes. [criticism]
- Henrich, Joseph and Boyd, Robert (2002) On modeling cognition and culture: Why replicators are not necessary for cultural evolution. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2, 87'112. [criticism]
- Henrich, Joseph and Boyd, Robert (2002) On modeling cognition and culture: Why replicators are not necessary for cultural evolution. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2, 87'112. [criticism]
- Henrich, Joseph and McElreath, Richard (2003a) The evolution of cultural evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 12:123'135. [criticism]
- Howlett, Peter and Morgan, Mary (...) MEMES - What Happens If You Say "Meme"?. [criticism]
- Hünneman, Ronald (2010) On the Senselessness of Memes & How They Might Make Sense as Replicators [criticism]
I - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]J - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]K - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]- Kilpinen, Erkki (2006) Memetics: A Critique On the use of meaning concepts about nature and culture. [criticism]
- King, Mike (2011) Richard Dawkins and Memes - Can the Man Be Serious or Is He Pulling Our Leg?. [criticism]
- Klepper, Howard (2000) Review of The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore. [criticism]
- Kronfeldner, Maria E. (2007) Darwinism, Memes, and Creativity: A Critique of Darwinian Analogical Reasoning from Nature to Culture. University Regensburg. [criticism]
- Kronfeldner, Maria E. (2007) Is cultural evolution Lamarckian? [criticism]
- Kronfeldner, Maria E. (2009) Darwinian 'Blind' Hypothesis Formation Revisited. [criticism]
- Kronfeldner, Maria E. (2011) Darwinian Creativity and Memetics. Acumen Research Edition. [criticism]
- Krythia, Gillian and Crozier, Dawn (2011) A critical examination of cultural evolution: natural selection in bird songs. Acumen Research Edition. [criticism][book]
- Kull, Kalevi (2000) Copy versus translate, meme versus sign: development of biological textuality. European Journal for Semiotic Studies 12(1), 101–120.[criticism]
- Kuper, A. (2000) If memes are the answer, what is the question? p. 175-188 in R. Aunger, ed. Darwinizing culture. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, U.K. [criticism]
- Kuper, A. (2006) Meme Wars Part 1 [criticism]
L - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]- Lake, Mark W., Renfrew, Colin, and Scarre, Christopher (1998) Digging for memes: the role of material objects in cultural evolution. In Cognition and material culture : the archaeology of symbolic storage. [criticism]
- Laland, Kevin N. and Odling-Smee J. (2000b) The evolution of the meme. In: Darwinizing culture: The status of memetics as a science, ed. R. Aunger, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. [criticism]
- Lanier, Jaron (2004) Vaulting into a Rapturous techno-future with Jaron Lanier [criticism]
- Lanier, Jaron (1997) The Value of Memes: A Powerful Paradigm or a Poor Metaphor? The Edge. [criticism]
- Lanier, Jaron and Dawkins, Richard (1997) Evolution: The Dissent Of Darwin; A debate Psychology Today, Jan-Feb. [criticism]
- Lanier, Jaron (1999) Jaron Lanier on The Evolution of Culture by Daniel C. Dennett The Edge. [criticism]
- Lende, D. (2009) Engaging & Dispatching Memetics. [criticism]
- Lende, D. (2010) People, Not Memes, Are the Medium! [criticism]
- Lewens, Tim (2007) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy section of cultural evolution. [criticism]
- Lissack, Michael R. (2004) The Redefinition of Memes: Ascribing Meaning to an Empty Cliche. Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, 3. [criticism]
M - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]- Malik, Kenan (2001) Man, Beast and Zombie: The New Science of Human Nature. Phoenix; New edition edition [book][criticism]
- Malik, Kenan (2006) What science can and cannot tell us about human nature. In human nature: fact and fiction (continuum) [criticism]
- Marks, Jonathan (2000) Can a holistic anthropology inform a reductive genetics? Paper presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association [criticism]
- Marks, Jonathan (2002) Review of: Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science. American Anthropologist [criticism]
- Marks, Jonathan (2004) What, if anything, is a Darwinian anthropology? [criticism]
- Marks, Jonathan (2005) The meme shows. Review of Coevolution: Genes, culture, and human diversity. [criticism]
- Marks, Jonathan (2012) Recent Advances in Culturomics. [criticism]
- Maynard Smith, John (1986) Natural Selection of Culture? A review of Culture and the Evolutionary Process. New York Review of Books. November 6. [criticism]
- Maynard Smith, John (1988) Did Darwin get it right : essays on games, sex, and evolution. [criticism]
- Mayr, Ernst (1997) The objects of?selection. PNAS March 18, 1997 vol. 94 no. 6 2091-2094. [criticism]
- McGrath, Alister (2004) Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life. [criticism][book]
- McGrath, Alister (2006) The Spell of the Meme. [criticism]
- McGrath, Alister and McGrath, Joanna Collicutt (2007) The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine. [criticism][book]
- McGrath, Alister (2011) Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary Thought and Natural Theology. [criticism][book]
- Merel, Peter (1999) Why I am not a Memeticist. [criticism]
- Midgley, Mary (1979) Gene-Juggling. Philosophy 54 (210):439 - 458. [criticism]
- Midgley, Mary (1998) Biological and Cultural Evolution. Monograph for The Institute for Cultural Research. [criticism][book]
- Midgley, Mary (1999) Of Memes and Witchcraft. [criticism]
- Midgley, Mary (2004) The Myths We Live By. [book][criticism]
- Miller, Geoffrey F. (2000) Memetic Evolution and Human Culture. (a review of The Meme Machine. preprint available here [criticism].
- Miller, Tristan (2010) Meme skepticism. [criticism]
- Moe, Christian (2002) Middle-Eastern memes. [criticism][paywall]
- Mondschein, Kenneth (2003) Criticism Of Memetic Theory. [criticism]
N - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]O - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]P - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]- Phillippi, David (2010) Evolutionary Psychology: A stone-age mindset. [criticism]
- Phillippi, David (2011) By Any 'Memes' Necessary: Dennett's Distortion of Culture. [criticism]
- Pigliucci, Massimo (2007) The trouble with memetics. Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 32, No.2, March/April 2008, pp 65.[scanned PDF][criticism]
- Pigliucci, Massimo (2009) Memes, Selfish Genes And Darwinian Paranoia. [criticism]
- Pigliucci, Massimo (2009) Review of "Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection". [criticism]
- Pigliucci, Massimo (2011) When Science Studies Religion: Six Philosophy Lessons for Science Classes. [criticism]
- Pinker, Steven (1997) How the Mind Works. W. W. Norton, New York. [book][criticism]
- Pinker, Steven (2009) Objections to memetics. [criticism]
- Plotkin, Henry C. (2000a) People Do More Than Imitate. Scientific American. [criticism]
- Plotkin, Henry C. (2000b) Culture and psychological mechanisms. In: Darwinizing culture. [criticism]
- Polichak, James W. (1998) Memes-what Are They Good For?: a Critique of Memetic Approaches to Information Processing Skeptic, Vol 6, No. 3. [criticism]
- Polichak, James W. (2002) Memes as Pseudoscience. In Michael Shermer, Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience. p.664 [criticism]
- Poulshock, J. (2002) The Problem And Potential Of Memetics. Journal of Psychology and Theology, Vol. 30, 2002. [criticism]
Q - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]R - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]- Richerson, Peter J. and Boyd, Robert, (2000b) Memes: Universal Acid or Better Mouse Trap , Boyd, Robert and Richerson PJ. In: Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science, R. Aunger ed. pp.143'162, Oxford University Press, Oxford. [criticism]
- Richerson, Peter J. and Boyd, Robert (2000e) Meme theory oversimplifies how culture changes. Scientific American, 283:4, 70-71. [criticism]
- Richerson, Peter J. and Boyd, Robert (2005a) Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL. [book][criticism]
- Richerson, Peter J., Boyd, Robert and Henrich, J, (2008) Five misunderstandings about cultural evolution Human Nature 19: 119-137. [criticism]
- Richerson, Peter J. (2010f) Culture Is an ACTIVE Part of Biology. SYMPOSIUM ON THE QUESTION "HOW IS CULTURE BIOLOGICAL?" ~ Six Essays and Discussions: Essay # 4. [criticism]
- Ridley, Mark (1993) Evolution. [book][criticism]
- Rosenfeldter, Mark (2001) The new pseudoscience of memes. A review of Thought Contagion by Aaron Lynch. [criticism]
- Ruse, Michael (1999) Is Evolution a Secular Religion? [criticism]
- Ruse, Michael (1989) The view from Somewhere - A critical defense of Evolutionary Epistemology. In Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology.[criticism]
- Ruse, Michael (2006) Remarkable exchange between Michael Ruse and Daniel Dennett. [criticism]
- Ruse, Michael (2008) Charles Darwin. [book][criticism]
- Ruse, Michael (2010) Cultural Evolution. [criticism]
- Ruse, Michael (2012) The Philosophy of Human Evolution. [criticism]
- Ruse, Michael (...) Meme [criticism]
- Runciman, W.G. (1999) Darwinian Soup. Vol. 21 No. 12. 10 June pages 25-26. Review of The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore. [criticism]
S - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]- Schmid, Hans Bernhard (2004) Evolution by Imitation - Gabriel Tarde and the Limits of Memetics [criticism]
- Schoen, Christopher (2009) Baldwin revisited [blog][criticism]
- Signorelli, Mark Anthony (2010) Taking Memes Seriously [criticism]
- Signorelli, Mark Anthony (2011) Aping Mankind - a review by Mark Anthony Signorelli. [criticism]
- Sperber, Dan (1998) Are Folk Taxonomies 'Memes'? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (4):589-590. [criticism]
- Sperber, Dan (2000) Why memes won't do. An objection to the memetic approach to culture. In: Darwinizing culture: The status of memetics as a science, ed. R. Aunger, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, p. 163'174. [criticism]
- Sperber, Dan (2011) Cultural Attractors. [criticism]
- St.Atmant, E. A. (2005) Mental DNA and the Ascent of Homo Sapiens (No memetic code). [blog][criticism]
- Sterelny, Kim, and Griffiths, P. (1999) Sex and Death: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [criticism][book]
- Sterelny, Kim (2006a) The Evolution and Evolvability of Culture. [criticism]
- Sterelny, Kim (2006b) Memes Revisited. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57. 145'165. [criticism]
- Sterelny, Kim (2007) The Evolution and Evolvability of Culture. [criticism]
- Stove, David C. (1996) Darwinian Fairytales. Ashgate Publishing. [book][criticism]
- Stove, David C. (1996) Genetic Calvinism, or Demons and Dawkins. [criticism]
T - [ A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z ]- Tallis, Raymond (2008) Darwin without Darwinitis. [criticism]
- Tallis, Raymond (2009a) Just A Little Tune I Found In My Mouth. [criticism]
- Tallis, Raymond (2009b) Undiscovered. [criticism]
- Tallis, Raymond (2010) Does Evolution Explain Our Behaviour? [criticism]
- Tallis, Raymond (2011) Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity. [book][criticism]
- Taylor, Timothy (2010) The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution. [criticism]
- Taylor, Timothy (2012) The Problem of ‘Darwinizing’ Culture (or Memes as the New Phlogiston). [criticism]
- Temkin, Ilya and Eldredge, Niles (2007) Phylogenetics and Material Cultural Evolution. Current Anthropology, 48(1), 146-153. [criticism]
- Tkachuk, J. L.. (2011) A Red Herring of Memetics [criticism][blog]
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- Wilkins, John S. (2009) Dreams of memes and replicator machines. [blog][criticism]
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- Wimsatt, William C (1999) Genes, Memes, and Cultural Inheritance, invited contribution for April 1999 Biology and Philosophy special issue on influence of R. C. Lewontin. 279-310. Contains “In the Laboratory of a Natural Philosopher (Richard Lewontin)”, 303-310. [criticism]
- Wimsatt, William C. (2006a) Generative Entrenchment and an Evolutionary Developmental Biology for Culture, invited commentary on Mesoudi, Whiten and Laland, Towards a Unified Science of Cultural Evolution. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 29: 364-366. [criticism]
- Wimsatt, William C. (2006b) Reproducing Generative entrenchment and an evolutionary developmental biology for culture. [criticism]
- Wimsatt, William C., and James R. Griesemer. (2007) Reproducing Entrenchments to Scaffold Culture: The Central Role of Development in Cultural Evolution. In Integrating Evolution and Development: From Theory to Practice, edited by R. Sansom and R. Brandon. Cambridge: MIT Press: 227-323. [criticism]
- Wimsatt, William C. (2010) Memetics does not provide a useful way of understanding cultural evolution: A developmental perspective. In Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology, Ed. Francisco Ayala and Robert Arp, Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 255-72. [criticism]
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