Beyond the Meme Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution

• Other Authors: Love, Alan C. (Editor), Wimsatt, William (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Minnesota Press 2019
• Series: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• Subjects: Philosophy of science; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; General Science; Anthropology
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Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time How do cultures change? In recent decades, the concept of the meme, posited as a basic unit of culture analogous to the gene, has been central to debates about...