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Memetics - A senior thesis on memetic selection criteria.
Anders Transhuman Pages: Memetics - Collection of links and essays about memes: ideas and concepts viewed as living organisms. Includes sections on memetic theory, examples and applications, controversial issues, a lexicon and a brief bibliography.
Chapter 11 from Richard Dawkins, ``The Selfish Gene'' - The text that started off the science of memetics.
Structure of Memes - The main criticism that can be raised against the memetic approach is that memes are difficult to define. What are the elements or units that make up a meme? Does a meme correspond to a complete symphony, or to a symphonic movement, a melody, a musical phrase, or even a single note?
Memetics - A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one. References, links.
Journal of Memetics - Peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated, in general, to the evolution of cultural behaviors and, more specifically, to evolutionary models of information transmission.
Memento - The home page of the open source Memento project - a lightweight knowledge management system based on the principles of memetics.
Memetics and Memetic Algorithms - List of mailing lists, forums, algortihms, and websites.
Memetics Publications on the Web - An index of online papers and articles about meme theory.
How can we die if we are not alive? - Explanation of memetics by analogy of computers.

Memetics - Memetics is an approach to evolutionary models of information transfer based on the concept of the meme. Just as memes are analogous to genes, memetics is analogous to genetics.
The Meme Machine - The Meme Machine (1999) is a popular science book by psychologist Susan Blackmore on the subject of memes. Blackmore attempts to constitute memetics as a science by discussing its empirical and analytic potential, as well as some important problems with memetics.
Metameme - In the field of memetics, a metameme (or meta-meme) is defined as a meme about a meme. A metaphor or the idea of memetic engineering are, thus, metamemes.
Sociofact - Term coined by Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, used together with the related terms "mentifact" and "artifact" to describe how cultural traits take on a life of their own, spanning over generations. This idea is related to memetics.
Mentifact - Mentifact is a term coined by Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, used together with the related terms "sociofact" and "artifact" to describe how cultural traits take on a life of their own, spanning over generations. This idea is related to memetics.