Beyond the Meme
Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over timeHow do cultures change? In recent decades, the concept of…
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Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over timeHow 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 cultural transformation. Despite the appeal of meme theory, its simplification of complex interactions and other inadequacies as an explanatory framework raise more questions about cultural evolution than it answers.In Beyond the Meme, William C. Wimsatt and Alan C. Love assemble interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution, providing a nuanced understanding of it as a process in which dynamic structures interact on different scales of size and time. By focusing on the full range of evolutionary processes across distinct contexts, from rice farming to
Beyond the Meme
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