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Those dreaded memes: The advantage of memetics over “symbolic inheritance”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2007
Abstract
Jablonka & Lamb (J&L) reject “the dreaded memes,” but memetics can explain human uniqueness and culture (as a product of the ability to imitate) without depending on their slippery notion of symbolism. Modern memes show the beginnings of a division into replicators and vehicles, and the replacement of reconstructive processes with systems of blind copying, variation, and selection.
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