I confused how memetics worksCould you share your knowledge?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion centers around the concept of memetics, particularly its mechanisms and implications in cultural transmission, with a focus on how human language functions as a cultural replicator. Participants seek to clarify their understanding of memetics and its parallels with biological evolution.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory, Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • One participant expresses confusion about how memetics operates and requests knowledge sharing.
  • Another participant provides a link to a resource on memetics, suggesting it is a valuable reference.
  • A third participant recommends bookmarking a specific site, indicating its relevance to the topic.
  • A later post references a scholarly article discussing human language as a cultural replicator, highlighting parallels between linguistic and biological evolution, and suggesting that linguistic phylogenies may offer insights into human cultural history.

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The discussion does not appear to reach a consensus, as participants express varying levels of understanding and provide different resources without resolving the initial confusion about memetics.

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Participants reference external resources and scholarly articles, but the discussion lacks clarity on specific definitions and mechanisms of memetics, leaving some assumptions unaddressed.

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todo said:
I confused how memetics works..
Could you share your knowledge?

This is a good example.

Nature Reviews Genetics 10, 405-415 (June 2009)

Human language as a culturally transmitted replicator by Mark Page

Human languages form a distinct and largely independent class of cultural replicators with behaviour and fidelity that can rival that of genes. Parallels between biological and linguistic evolution mean that statistical methods inspired by phylogenetics and comparative biology are being increasingly applied to study language. Phylogenetic trees constructed from linguistic elements chart the history of human cultures, and comparative studies reveal surprising and general features of how languages evolve, including patterns in the rates of evolution of language elements and social factors that influence temporal trends of language evolution. For many comparative questions of anthropology and human behavioural ecology, historical processes estimated from linguistic phylogenies may be more relevant than those estimated from genes.
http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v10/n6/abs/nrg2560.html
 

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