From: "Paul Marsden" <PaulMarsden@email.msn.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Flinn article on evolutionary models of culture
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 15:08:01 +0100
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Hi Bruce, I don't have an electronic copy of the paper so I can't email =
it to you, but it can be downloaded from
http://www.hbz-nrw.de/elsevier/10905138/sz973328/
Your institution needs to be a registered subscriber. Mine isn't (we're =
still in the dark, let's-burn-down-lots-of-trees era) so I had to get a =
photocopy from Interlibrary loan.
Paul Marsden
Graduate Research Centre in the Social Sciences
University of Sussex
e-mail PaulMarsden@msn.com
tel/fax (44) (0) 117 974 1279
Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission:
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From: Bruce Howlett <bhowlett@metz.une.edu.au>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Date: 22 September 1998 12:37
Subject: Re: Flinn article on evolutionary models of culture
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Paul,=20
Do you have a URL or link for this paper? Or could you send me a =
copy? Any assistance would be most appreciated.=20
Regards,=20
Bruce.=20
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Paul Marsden wrote:=20
You probably have already seen it, but I have just read a most =
useful paper=20
in the Journal of Evolution and Human Behavior (vol. 18 1997) by =
Mark Flinn=20
of the University of Missouri. In this well written article, =
Flinn reviews=20
evolutionary theories of culture, distinguishing between four =
main=20
approaches=20
1)Dual inheritance/coevolution models=20
2)Cultural selection/mind parasite models=20
3)Evolved Psychological mechanism models/EP=20
4)Behavioural ecology models=20
Flinn then attempts to provide a synthesis of these approaches =
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integrating them within an evolutionary social learning =
framework.=20
Flinn puts memetics in category 2 - I have a somewhat broader =
understanding=20
of memetics, as you all know, but that is another issue. The =
article is=20
comprehensive and provides useful constructive criticism of =
evolutionary=20
approaches to culture. I think it is one of the key papers for =
all=20
memeticists.=20
Flinn, M.V. (1997) "Culture and the Evolution of Social =
Learning" Evolution=20
and Human Behavior 18: 23-67=20
Paul Marsden=20
Graduate Research Centre in the Social Sciences=20
University of Sussex=20
e-mail PaulMarsden@msn.com=20
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Bruce Howlett. B.A.L., J.P.=20
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Researching: Management of Change in Organizations: The Culture =
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Do you have a URL or link for this paper? Or could you send me a = copy?=20 Any assistance would be most appreciated.=20
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Bruce.
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