Re: i-culture and m-culture

Chris Cleirigh (cleirig@speech.usyd.edu.au)
Wed, 04 Jun 1997 10:32:55 +1000

Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 10:32:55 +1000
From: Chris Cleirigh <cleirig@speech.usyd.edu.au>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: i-culture and m-culture

N Rose wrote:
>
> If you agree with the existence of memetic phenotypes (like
> Cloak) then is cultural evolution inevitably a Lamarkian process?
> Is this a fatal problem for the theory of cultural change using
> an evolutionary model?
>
>

Just for clarification, would anyone like to give some examples where
meme phenotypes acquire new characteristics (before replicating in
another brain) and then pass on that new information to the next meme
generation?

Thanks in advance,
Chris
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