Message-Id: <33A05B6C.21A3@rug.ac.be>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 13:26:20 -0700
From: Mario Vaneechoutte <Mario.Vaneechoutte@rug.ac.be>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: re.Cultural Evolution (units of analysis)
Bill Benzon wrote:
>
> >From Alex Brown
>
> >The problem in the usage of the term 'meme' is
> >that it is applied to (interchangable with) several different levels of
> >analysis at the same time leading to all sorts of confusions in the
> >search for the mechanisms of cultural evolution. I offer the following
> >for discussion:
> >
>
> yes
Yes, yes. I hate to say this, but Dawkins is to be blamed.
Mario Vaneechoutte
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