Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:25:05 +0000
From: David Hales <daphal@essex.ac.uk>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: [Fwd: Group Selection - Amish]
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:22:53 +0000
From: David Hales <daphal@essex.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Essex - Department of Computer Science
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Subject: Group Selection - Amish
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Hi All,
I notice a little discussion on group selection touching on the Amish
system and origins. The following is an very good introduction to
history, origins and the (then - 1963) character of Amish society.
All the way from the Swiss/Dutch Anabaptist/Mennonites to modern
American groupings.
Author
Hostetler, John Andrew, 1918-
Title
Amish society
Published
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1963]
I've spent a bit of time thinking about "cultural group selection" and
not getting far... For what it's worth my lame (i.e. don't flame me if
you get upset) attempts to address it in a very abstract way can be
found in:-
Hales, D. (1998a), Selfish Memes and Selfless Agents - Altruism in the
Swap Shop. In the
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems
(ICMAS'98). IEEE
Computer Society, California.
Hales, D. (1998b), Stereotyping, Groups and Cultural Evolution. In
Sichman, J., Conte,
R., & Gilbert, N. (Eds.) Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation
– Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence, volume 1534, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
The text of both can be found on my home-page (given below).
Keep up the good work memonaughts...
dave.
-- David Hales (Rm 3.411) email: daphal@essex.ac.uk Dept. of Computer Science tel: 01206-872136 fax: 01206-872788 University of Essex, UK http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/projects/res/daphal
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