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See also:
- Journal of Memetics
- Peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated, in general, to the evolution of cultural behaviors and, more specifically, to evolutionary models of information transmission.
- Anders Transhuman Pages: Memetics - Collection of links and essays about memes: ideas and concepts viewed as living organisms. Includes sections on memetic theory, examples and applications, controversial issues, a lexicon and a brief bibliography.
- The Art of Memetics: Memes, Meme Theory, Memetic Marketing - Book of this name by Wes Unruh and Edward Wilson, about how ideas grow might and power, and spread as if by magic. Read online, or purchase the hard or softback version.
- Chapter 11 from Richard Dawkins, ``The Selfish Gene'' - The text that started off the science of memetics.
- The Church of Virus - Virus is a collection of mutually-supporting ideas (a meme-complex) encompassing philosophy, science, technology, politics, and religion.
- Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology - Information about a book that explains the development of ideology and human cultural understanding through the spread and evolution of memes and cultural know-how.
- Definition of Meme - Defines the term and explains the theory. From memes.org, a blog and forum devoted to memes, memetics, emergence theory and conspiracy.
- The Electric Meme - John Prostill of the University of Bremen reviews the book by Robert Aunger.
- How can we die if we are not alive? - Explanation of memetics by analogy of computers.
- Meme Central - FAQ, links, and a bookstore. (By Richard Brodie, author of the popular book on memetics, "Virus of the Mind".)
- Memes - Susan Blackmore - A detailed site maintained by the psychologist and memeticist Susan Blackmore.
- Memetics - A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one. References, links.
- Memetics - A senior thesis on memetic selection criteria.
- Memetics - Information from Wikipedia on this neo-Darwinian approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer based on the concept of the meme.
- Neobiology & Ethetics - The neobiological model indicates that all living systems, genetic and memetic belong to the realm of biology. Ethetics is the field which encompasses all self-perpetuating algorithmic structures, including genetics and memetics.
- Persistence of Memes - Collection of philosophical essays on memetics and the evolution of culture.
- Structure of Memes - The main criticism that can be raised against the memetic approach is that memes are difficult to define. What are the elements or units that make up a meme? Does a meme correspond to a complete symphony, or to a symphonic movement, a melody, a musical phrase, or even a single note?
- UK Memes Central - Includes texts by Dr Susan Blackmore and links to other articles online.
- Colorless Green Homunculi by William L. Benzon - Essay/review of The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think. (October, 2002)
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