Links on Evolutionary Theory and Memetics

Evolutionary Philosophy and Theory

• Without Miracles:Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution, a book by Gary Cziko
• Gary Cziko's and Donald T. Campbell's extensive bibliography of Selection Theory and Evolutionary Epistemology including a list of quotes
• H.C. Speel's page on Evolution, Complexity and Philosophy
• Economy& Evolution Publications
• University of Vienna Dep. of Theoretical Biology, with research on systems theory of evolution, alife, constructivism, cognition and evolutionary epistemology
• John Wilkins' Evolution and Philosophy and his older Evolutionary Philosophy page
• John Jay Kineman's theory of autoevolution

Biological Evolution and History of Evolution

• Catalog of Information about Evolution on WWW
• Evolutionary/Geological Timeline
• the full text of Darwin's "Origin of Species"
• the History of Evolutionary thought at the Museum of Paleontology (hypermedia exhibit at UC Berkeley)
• Ecology and Evolution archive (gopher)
• a review article on the theory of Punctuated Equilibria
• Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life
• newsgroup sci.bio.evolution on the biological theory of evolution (home page and archive (gopher))
• newsgroup talk.origins: informal discussions about evolution (and creationism!), maintains an extensive Talk.Origins archive discussing different arguments in the evolution-creation debate, and including an especially rich set of FAQs on different mechanisms and examples of evolution
• newsgroup bionet.molbio.evolution on molecular biological methods for studying evolution
• sci.anthropology.paleo newsgroup on the evolutionary origin of human beings (homepage); see also the paleoanthropology exhibit, with photos of major fossil findings
• an introductory hypertext book on astronomy, cosmology and the origin of the universe
• The Origin of Life: astronomical, chemical and biological
• The Darwinian Homepage
• Ted Kaehler and Alan Kay's Evolution Essay

Evolutionary Psychology and Sociology

• Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer, by Leda Cosmides & John Tooby
• The (Im)moral Animal: A Quick & Dirty Guide toEvolutionary Psychology, a Skeptic article by Frank Miele
• Center for Evolutionary Psychology at UCSB
• Distributed Electronic Journal of Psychology, Culture, and Evolution
• Weblinks from the International Society for Human Ethology
• Evolution and Ethics Resources on-line
• Society for Evolutionary Ethics, founded John David Garcia
• Human Behavior and Evolution Society
• Evolutionary Psychology for the Common Person
• Social and Cultural Evolution: a rich collection of on-line publications
• Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
• the International Paleopsychology Project, led by Howard Bloom, investigates the evolution of intelligence from bacteria to human groups

Memetics

• Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission: the first peer-reviewed journal on the subject, with introduction, biblio and articles
• Ken Kitowski's Memetics Index
• Agner Fog's electronic book on "Cultural Selection"
• Aaron Lynch's book "THOUGHT CONTAGION. How Belief Spreads Through Society"
• Marc de Hingh's The Meme Factory with lots of useful links
• Memetics page in the Transhuman Web
• Greg's Memetic Page
• Meme Central: Richard Brodie's somewhat commercially motivated memetics intro
• UK Memes Central: all things memetic in the UK
• Luc Claeys's "Behavior of Information", a treatise on how nature and mind can be better understood by seeing information as an "active", "living" substance
• information on memetics collected by M. Watz
• information on memetics collected by Eric Watt Forste
• Of Man, Mind and Machine, an essay on Meme-based Models of Mind and the possibility for consciousness in alternate media
• Memes: catchphrase of a new generation
• alt.memetics: Newsgroup on Memetics and its selected archive, introductory FAQ and list of memetic resources
• Evolution and the World-Wide Web: an analogy between URL's and individuals undergoing selection
• Church of Virus: a "memetically engineered" atheistic religion
• Evolutionary models of scientifictheory change: a thesis by John S. Wilkins
• Ars Electronica Symposium: Memesis: the Future of Evolution
• Hans-Cees Speel's theoretical essay on memetics
• Daniel Dennett's Center for Cognitive Studies at Tuft University, an "informal, self-selecteddepot for current work on memes"
• a long list of Memetics publications on the Web