Memetics 100 years ago

From: Alan Patrick (a.patrick@btinternet.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 22:14:45 BST

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    One guy at Santa Fe reckons this paper by William James set out the basics
    of memetics 100 years ago:

    http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/James/great_men.html

    Rgds

    Alan

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