RE: The necessity of mental memes

From: Price, Ilfryn (I.Price@shu.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 21 2002 - 11:31:16 GMT

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Keith

This is a relatively common evolutionary dynamic, especially in meme based evolution. As a new niche opens up several terms compete for it
until one prevails, perhaps by contingent lock in as ite gets more users, perhaps by a slight advantage. I and Ray Shaw discussed it with
respect of business 'fads'
in 1996.

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If Price

> I am working mostly from memory, but there were several other
> terms being
> used in the late 70s and early 80s before "meme" more or less
> became the
> catch word. I remember a whole list of them in an early
> section of a book
> by (I think) Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, possibly Cultural
> Transmission and
> Evolution: A Quantitative Approach (1981), though it might
> have been an
> earlier book. More about him
> here: http://www.balzan.it/english/pb1999/cavalli/paper.htm If
> anyone has this book, please take a look.
>>

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