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Mathematical Models for Memetics
by Jeremy at 10:29 pm EST, Nov 15, 2001

Not a new publication, but potentially useful. Published in 2000 in the Journal of Memetics.

From the abstract: The science of memetics aims to understand the evolution of socially transmitted cultural traits. Recently attention has focused on the interaction between memetic and genetic evolution ... A body of formal theoretical work already exists that can be readily employed ... We reject the argument that meaningful differences exist between memetics and ... population genetics methods. The goal of this article is to point out the similarities between memetics and cultural evolution ... We illustrate how the theory can be applied by developing a simple illustrative model to test a hypothesis from the memetics literature.


 
 
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