A Bibliography of Memetics

A Bibliography of Memetics is a list of books and papers related to memetics, compiled in May 1997 by Liane Gabora for the Journal of Memetics.

List

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• Boden, M. A. 1991. The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. Cambridge University Press.
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• Boulding, K.E. 1981. Evolutionary Economics.
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• Brodie, R. 1996. Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme. Integral Press.
• Calvin, W. 1996. The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind. MIT Press.
• Calvin, W. 1996. How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now. Basic Books.
• Calvin, W. 1997. The Six Essentials? Minimal Requirements for the Darwinian Bootstrapping of Quality. J. Memetics - Evol. Models Inf. Transm., Vol. 1. http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/1997/vol1/calvin_wh.html
• Campbell, D .T. 1965. Variation and selective retention in socio-cultural evolution. In (H.R. Barringer, G.I. Blanksten, & R.W. Mack, eds.) Social Change in Developing Areas, a Reinterpretation of Evolutionary Theory. Schenkman Publishing Co.
• Campbell, D. T. 1974. Evolutionary Epistemology. In (P.A. Schlipp, ed.) The Library of Living Philosophers, Vol. XIV: The Philosophy of Karl Popper. Open Court.
• Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. & Feldman, M. W. 1973. Cultural versus biological inheritance: phenotypic transmission from parents to children. Human Genetics 25: 618-637.
• Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. & Feldman, M. W. 1981. Cultural transmission and evolution: A quantitative approach, Princeton University Press.
• Cloak, F. T. 1975. Is a cultural ethology possible? Human Ecology 3: 161-182.
• Clark & Calestous. 1987. Long-run Economics: An Evolutionary Approach.
• Coombs. R., Saviotti P, & Walsh V., eds. 1992. Technological Change and Company Strategies: economic and sociological perspectives. Academic Press.
• Costall, A. 1991. The meme meme. Cultural Dynamics 4: 321-335.
• Csanyi, V. 1989. Evolutionary Systems and Society: A General Theory of Life, Mind and Culture. Duke University Press.
• Csikszentmihalyi, M. 1993. The Evolving Self. HarperCollins.
• Darwin, C. 1871. The Descent of Man. John Murray Publications.
• Darwin, C. 1985. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Edited with and introduction by J.W. Burrow. Penguin Classics. First published by John Murray 1859.
• Dawkins, R. 1976, 1982. The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press.
• Dawkins, R. 1982. Organisms, groups and memes: replicators or vehicles? In: The Extended Phenotype. Oxford University Press. pp. 97-117.
• Dawkins, R., 1993. Viruses of the mind. In (B. Dalhbom, ed.) Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind. Blackwell.
• Dawkins, R. 1993. Is religion just a disease? The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday December 15, p. 18.
• Dennett, D. 1990. Memes and the exploitation of imagination. J Aesthetics Art Criticism 48: 127-135.
• Dennett, D. 1991. Consciousness Explained. Penguin Books.
• Dennett, D. 1996. Darwin's dangerous idea. The Sciences 35: 34-40.
• Depew, D. & Weber, B.H. (eds). 1986. Evolution at a Crossroads: The New Biology and the New Philosophy of Science. MIT Press.
• Donald, M. 1991. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition. Harvard University Press.
• Dosi, G., Pavitt, K., & Soete, L. 1990. The Economics of Technical Change and International Trade. Harvester Wheatsheaf.
• Drexler, K. E. 1987. Hypertext publishing and the evolution of knowledge. Social Intelligence, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 87-120.
• Durham, W. H. 1991. Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity. Stanford University Press.
• Edelman, G. 1992. Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind. Basic Books.
• Edmonds, B. 1997. Modelling Bounded Rationality using Evolutionary Techniques. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1305, 31-42.
• Fog, A. 1997. [[Cultural R/K Selection. J. Memetics - Evol. Models Inf. Transm., Vol. 1. http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/1997/vol1/fog_a.html
• Freeman C. 1991. Innovation, changes of techno-economic paradigm and biological anologies in economics. Revue Economique No. 2, p. 211-232.
• Gabora, L. M. 1995. Meme and variations: A computational model of cultural evolution. In (D. Stein Ed.) 1993 Lectures in Complex Systems. Addison-Wessley.
• Gabora, L. M. 1996. A day in the life of a meme. Philosophica, 57, 901-938. Reprinted in (P. van Loocke, ed.) The Nature, Representation, and Evolution of Concepts]]. Routledge.
• Gabora, L. M. 1997. Memetics: The creative spark. Wired 5.06, June.
• Gabora, L. M. 1997. The Origin and Evolution of Culture and Creativity J. Memetics - Evol. Models Inf. Transm., Vol. 1. http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/1997/vol1/gabora_l.html
• Gatherer, D. 1997. Macromemetics and the Re-unification of Philosophy. J. Memetics - Evol. Models Inf. Transm., Vol. 1. http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/1997/vol1/gatherer_dg.html
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• Hanush, H. 1988. Evolutionary Economics. Cambridge. Hays, D. G. 1993. [[The Evolution of Technology Through Four Cognitive Ranks. Connected Education.
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