SongsGatherer, DerekJournal of Memetics Evolutionary Models of Information TransmissionGatherer, Derek. 2004. „Birth of a Meme: the Origin and Evolution of Collusive Voting Patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest." Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary M o d e l s o f ...
Additionally, although none of the songs from 1975 have persisted, around half of the syllable types recurred in 2012 (Ju et al., 2019). We proposed three possible drivers for the increase in diversity: (1) higher innovation rates; (2) more demonstrators (as a result of increased density...
confirmed that males emit songs when they encounter a females’ scent and that females are attracted to the songs. The scientists also found that females can tell apart their brothers from unrelated males by their songs – even...
The cultural evolution of song in populations of chaffinches from New Zealand was analyzed using the meme concept. Songs were broken down into their constituent memes (individual syllable types, their variants, or groups of linked syllables), and patterns of geographical variation for memes of diffe...
“Well call me Karen, OK,” she jokes, invoking the meme for privileged white womanhood. With more than half a million views, it was her first viral hit; she'd been on the app less than a month. A week later, she struck gold again. A video of Blackmon dancing with a stranger in...
However, Richard Dawkins (1976) has in his book The Selfish Gene proposed at theory that he calls meme theory claiming that just as biological beings survive by and compete by means of genes that are reproduced so cultural ideas and products, called memes by Dawkins, may be described in a ...
Doolittle and Booth liken(assimilate … with) this to the way songs perpetuate themselves as cultural entities. "There are songs which have lasted for a long time basically because a lot of people were happy to sing them," Doolittle said. Individual singers come and go, but even in cultures...
songs of Savannah sparrows. In a first step, “click trains” replaced “high note clusters” over a period of three decades. We use mathematical modelling to show that this replacement is consistent with the action of selection, rather than drift or frequency-dependent bias. Generations later,...
Here’s one of their last concerts together when they were both middle-aged. But their harmonies are still great, and this ismy favorite among their songs. They had fallen out earlier, but it’s clear that they still had affection for each other: ...
This patronizing meme, which is completely unnecessary, seems to be spreading; it’s now showing up in theNew York Times: and this: It’s at theWashington Post, too: and at theLos Angeles Times: Now I already know some readers are going to tell me that they don’t object to this, ...