What Happened to Selfish Genes? with J. Arvid Agren
This View of Life
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The Meme Concept Has Been a Very Successful Meme
The word meme itself has been a very successful meme. But when you think of kind of memes as this attempt to kind of free replicators from the constraints or specific physical features, it seems like it's somewhat ironic that in many ways it seems to be those exact physical features of genes or organic genes. That why I think it kind of works still for in organic or biological evolution and why it does not work as well in cultural evolution. Even though the gene on the dean's side view is vague on kind of issues like boundaries, like where one gene starts and so on, I think you can kind of still get away with it.
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