I describe memetics as ordered recombination, cooperation, and survival
of the fittest (contrasting it from "genetics" as chance recombination,
competition, and destruction of the least fit). My criteria for a thing
being a meme is that it symbolically define evolution (within a memetic
"unit") as that which has survived rather than what is selected against
(as does darwinian theory, which ultimately suggests that a thing which
is not suited for the environment be destroyed). Thus, "genetics" as I
use the term focuses on environmental contingencies and memetics is
cross cultural (or even pre-cultural).
Brett Lane Robertson
Indiana, USA
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