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I am occasionally accused of having backtracked on memes, of having lost heart, pulled in my horns, had second thoughts. The truth is that my first thoughts were more modest than some memeticists might wish. For me the original mission was negative. The word was introduced at the end of...
The search--the quest--informs Greek myths ("We have Orpheus and Morpheus in the film," says Larry) as well as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "It's a story about consciousness," says Larry, "a child's perception of an adult's world. The Matrix is about the birth and evolution...
Natural selection, Orr points out, applies beautifully to random processes such as gene mutations but would fall apart if animals could deliberately upgrade their young. Ideas, on the other hand, are often consciously modified before they're transmitted. Meme evolution, unlike gene evolution, isn't random. "When Newton invented calculus...
The problem is that dialogue is useless when it doesn't involve the key players. The longer Wilson and Chairman of the Board of Trustees Nancy-Beth G. Sheerr '71--and for that matter, President Rudenstine and his fellow administrators working on the issue--remain silent about their negotiations, the...
The starting point for any evolutionary view of sex differences is David Buss's 1994 book, The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating, in which he presents the findings of his 37-culture study of male and female mate preferences and discusses the evolutionary origins and behavioral consequences of...