How do cultures change?
Biologist Richard Dawkins advanced the idea that the meme (from the Greek mimema, meaning "imitated") could be thought of as a unit of cultural information spread by imitation, similar to biological genes.
But there are some problems with the so-called meme theory, and Alan C. Love and William Wimsatt have collected a diverse collection of ideas from a multitude of disciplines, looking at the ways in which cultures are learned, transmitted and evolve.
Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution edited by Alan C. Love and William Wimsatt, is published by the University of Minnesota Press and will be available in July.