Tag: Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002)

Portrait of angry cat on blue background. Generative AI

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 31, 2026

Categorized
Evolution, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology

Tagged
Agner Fog, Glenn Reynolds, H. Allen Orr, Meme concept, Meme Machine (1999), Simon Bennett, Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), Streisand effect, Susan Blackmore}

Whatever Happened to Dawkins’s Famous Darwinian “Memes”?

_{His materialist theory of information transmission was wildly popular but, after a couple of decades, it has disappeared, almost without a trace} _{Denyse O'Leary
October 31, 2026

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Evolution, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology}

The main problem with the concept of the “meme” was that it did not explain anything that actually needed explaining.