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Re:Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution by webmaven on Thursday October 21, 2021 @03:56PM (#28950050)
> Chapter 11 of the selfish gene from 1976 plainly states this.

Yep. And the idea has been elaborated upon by many writers since (especially during the '90s).

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Re:Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution by toolslive on Friday October 22, 2021 @03:00AM (#28954389)
Yep. I wrote a paper about memetic algorithms in the 90s, before it even was called memetic algorithms and before the whole thing was called AI.
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