virus: Re: virus-digest V2 #47

KMO (kmo@amazon.com)
Sat, 22 Feb 1997 12:30:30 -0800


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> From: konsler@ascat.harvard.edu (Reed Konsler)
> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:32:13 -0500
> Subject: virus: The Greeks Would be Geeks

> Dawkins is a zoologist and an evolutionary biologist. Other than Selfish
> Gene and the article "Viruses of the Mind" I haven't seen anything about
> memetics from him, and I've looked.

If you want to read Dawkins' most involved discourse on memes, check out
chpaters 5 and 6 of "The Extended Phenotype." The title of chapter 6 is
"Organisms, Groups and Memes: Replicators or Vehicles?" You might also
want to take a look at chapter 5 of the book he wrote for the Science
Masters series "River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life." Chapter 5
is called "The Replication Bomb."

Enjoy.

-KMO