Genes * Memes
... • Can we reconstruct cultural phylogenies? • Has culture affected human genetic evolution? ...
... • Can we reconstruct cultural phylogenies? • Has culture affected human genetic evolution? ...
Dawkins, redux
... n 1976, Richard Dawkins, then a 35-yearold Oxford lecturer in animal behaviour, published his first book, The Selfish Gene (Oxford University Press). Distilling a body of recent population-genetics research — notably that of W. D. Hamilton — it argued that genes, not organisms, were the targets of n ...
... n 1976, Richard Dawkins, then a 35-yearold Oxford lecturer in animal behaviour, published his first book, The Selfish Gene (Oxford University Press). Distilling a body of recent population-genetics research — notably that of W. D. Hamilton — it argued that genes, not organisms, were the targets of n ...
Genetic Mutation - Raymond Williams Foundation
... Melvyn did his best, but even he, at the end, seemed less than enthusiastic with his learned guests. Fascinating how highly intelligent specialists can sometimes be so hopeless at conveying interest and significance to ‘outsiders’? 3. Move on quickly to what may make more sense, connecting back to o ...
... Melvyn did his best, but even he, at the end, seemed less than enthusiastic with his learned guests. Fascinating how highly intelligent specialists can sometimes be so hopeless at conveying interest and significance to ‘outsiders’? 3. Move on quickly to what may make more sense, connecting back to o ...
Lecture 2
... • At what level does natural selection occur? • Darwin “organismal” • But selection can act at other levels – Genes – Cells – (Organisms) – Groups (social insects) – Species? ...
... • At what level does natural selection occur? • Darwin “organismal” • But selection can act at other levels – Genes – Cells – (Organisms) – Groups (social insects) – Species? ...
Plato`s dualism
... development of culture within a Darwinian framework: Just as genes propagate [breed & spread] themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperm or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain by a process which, in the broad sense of the term, ...
... development of culture within a Darwinian framework: Just as genes propagate [breed & spread] themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperm or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain by a process which, in the broad sense of the term, ...
Richard Dawkins (1941- ) is a British zoologist and
... book articulates the theory of natural selection in such vivid and accessible terms that it is often mistakenly regarded as merely a “popular” book. Dawkins’ central claim is that the most fundamental (and hence most explanatory) perspective on all evolution by natural selection is the “gene’s-eye-v ...
... book articulates the theory of natural selection in such vivid and accessible terms that it is often mistakenly regarded as merely a “popular” book. Dawkins’ central claim is that the most fundamental (and hence most explanatory) perspective on all evolution by natural selection is the “gene’s-eye-v ...