Charles Darwin, the founder of the idea of natural selection, believed that this selection is not limited exclusively to biology: changes in language, consciousness, and technology are also adaptive. The transmission of culture is not a human prerogative. To date, several approaches for the understanding of the biological basis of cultural evolution were developed. Memetics stands out among other interdisciplinary theories that consider the development of culture and society through the prism of biological phenomena, because it is based on the concept of the biological replicator, meme and the mechanisms of cultural evolution are understood by analogy with biological evolution. The concepts of the biological and cultural replicators are similar; however, the nature of memes and the specific mechanisms of their replication are still poorly understood. In this review, we consider the strengths and weaknesses of the memetic approach to the study of cultural phenomena in the context of the cultural and technological evolution of mankind.

Dmitry Ermakov

Alexander Ermakov

Biosystems

BIOSYSTEMS 鼓励将生物学、进化思维和信息处理科学联系起来的实验、计算和理论文章。链接区域形成一个圆圈，涵盖生物信息处理的基本性质、复杂生物系统的计算建模、计算的进化模型、将生物学原理应用于新型计算系统的设计以及使用生物分子材料合成人工捕捉自然生物信息处理基本原理的系统。

The journal "BioSystems" encourages the integration of biology, evolutionary thinking, and information processing science, publishing experimental, computational, and theoretical articles. The scope of the journal encompasses the fundamental properties of biological information processing, computational modeling of complex biological systems, evolutionary models of computation, and the application of biological principles to the design of novel computational systems. Additionally, it focuses on artificial systems synthesized from biomolecular materials to capture the fundamental principles of natural biological information processing.

《BioSystems》期刊鼓励将生物学、进化思维与信息处理科学相结合，发表实验、计算和理论方面的研究文章。该期刊的研究领域涵盖生物信息处理的基本特性、复杂生物系统的计算建模、计算的进化模型，以及将生物学原理应用于新型计算系统的设计。此外，期刊还关注利用生物分子材料合成的人工系统，以捕捉自然生物信息处理的基本原理。

BioSystems

Memetic approach to cultural evolution

The strengths and weaknesses of the memetic approach to the study of cultural phenomena in the context of the cultural and technological evolution of mankind are considered.

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Memetic approach to cultural evolution

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