Journal of Memetics

The Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Modes of Information Transmission (stylised as JoM-EMIT) was a peer-reviewed academic journal that was active between 1997 and 2005.

List of all JoM-EMIT articles

1997 - Volume 1

Issue 1 - May

• The Six Essentials? Minimal Requirements for the Darwinian Bootstrapping of Quality by William H. Calvin
• Cultural R/K Selection by Agner Fog
• The Origin and Evolution of Culture and Creativity by Liane Gabora
• Macromemetics: Towards a Framework for the Re-unification of Philosophy by Derek Gatherer

Issue 2 - December

• Models for Interacting Populations of Memes: Competition and Niche Behavior by Michael L. Best
• Creativity, Evolution and Mental Illnesses by Antonio Preti and Paola Miotto
• A Memetic Analysis of Policy Making by Hans-Cees Speel
• Bird Song as a Possible Cultural Mechanism for Speciation by Mario Vaneechoutte

1998 - Volume 2

Issue 1 - June

• What's in a Meme? Reflections from the perspective of the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology by John S. Wilkins
• Units, Events and Dynamics in Memetic Evolution by Aaron Lynch
• Controversies in Meme Theory by Nick Rose

Issue 2 - December

• The Memetic Origin of Language: modern humans as musical primates by Mario Vaneechoutte and John Skoyles
• On Modelling in Memetics by Bruce Edmonds
• Why the `Thought Contagion' Metaphor is Retarding the Progress of Memetics by Derek Gatherer
• Imitation and the Definition of a Meme by Susan Blackmore
• Memetics and Social Contagion: Two Sides of the Same Coin? by Paul Marsden

1999 - Volume 3

Issue 1 - June

• Survival of the institutionally fittest concepts by Martin de Jong

Issue 2 - December

• Applying Memetics to Financial Markets: Do Markets Evolve towards Efficiency? by Joshua Frank
• Do Animals Have Memes? by Simon Reader and Kevin Laland
• Different Types of Memes: Recipemes, Selectemes and Explanemes by John Langrish

2000/1 - Volume 4

Issue 1 - June

• Replicating Sonorities: Towards a Memetics of Music by Steven Jan
• Mathematical Models for Memetics by Jeremy Kendel and Kevin Laland

Issue 2 - Special Issue on Computational Memetics

• Cultural evolution of "guiding criteria" and behaviour in a population of neural-network agents by Gianluca Baldassarre
• Modelling the effects of memetic taboos on genetic homosexuality by Derek Gatherer
• Transmission Of Cultural Traits By Emulation: An Agent-Based Model Of Group Foraging Behavior by Robert Reynolds, Robert Whallon, and Steven Goodhall

2001 - Volume 5

Issue 1 - March

• Mutation, Selection, And Vertical Transmission Of Theistic Memes In Religious Canons by John Gottsch
• Is Suicide Contagious? A Case Study in Applied Memetics by Paul Marsden
• Towards a Cognitive Memetics: Socio-Cognitive Mechanisms for Memes Selection and Spreading by Cristiano Castelfranchi

Issue 2 - September

• Reconstruction of organisational phylogeny from memetic similarity analysis: Proof of feasibility by Andrew Lord and If Price
• Mergers and Takeovers: A Memetic Approach by Ed Vos and Ben Kelleher

2002 - Volume 6

Issue 1 - March

• Syntactic Structure in Birdsong: Memetic Evolution of Songs or Grammars? by William Majoros
• Darwinian Processes and Memes in Architecture: A Memetic Theory of Modernism by Nikos Salingaros and Terry Mikiten
• The Spread of Irrational Behaviours by Contagion: An Agent Micro-Simulation by Derek Gatherer

Issue 2 - September

• Chess moves and their memomics: a framework for the evolutionary processes of chess openings by João Dinis de Sousa
• Cultural Transmission and the Capacity to Approve or Disapprove of Offspring’s Behaviour by Laureano Castro and Miguel Toro

2003 - Volume 7

Issue 1 - March

• The Evolutionary Ecology of Science by Marion Blute

Issue 2 - September

• Competing Memes Analysis by David Dirlam
• Inferring Potential Memetic Structure from Cross-Sectional Data: An Application to American Religious Beliefs by Carter Butts and Christin Hilgeman

2004 - Volume 8

Issue 1 - March

• The Redefinition of Memes: Ascribing Meaning to an Empty Cliché by Michael Lissack
• The Evolution of Language and Science Studied by means of Biological Concepts by Börje Ekstig

Issue 2 - September

• The Inherent Instability of Memetic Systems: Use of a Genetic Algorithm to Solve a Parameter Optimisation Problem in a Memetic Simulation by Derek Gatherer

2005 - Volume 9

Final Issue - Retrospectives and Prospects

• Memetics and evolutionary social science by Marion Blute
• Using Memetics to Grow Memetics by David Dirlam
• The Revealed Poverty of the Gene-Meme Analogy – why memetics per se has failed to produce substantive results by Bruce Edmonds
• Finding a Niche for Memetics in the 21st Centuary by Derek Gatherer