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Finding a Niche for Memetics in the 21st Century. / Gatherer, Derek.
In: Journal of Memetics-Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, Vol. 6, 2005.

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Gatherer, D 2005, 'Finding a Niche for Memetics in the 21st Century', Journal of Memetics-Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, vol. 6. <http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/2005/vol9/gatherer_d.html>

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Gatherer, D. (2005). Finding a Niche for Memetics in the 21st Century. Journal of Memetics-Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, 6. http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/2005/vol9/gatherer_d.html

Vancouver

Gatherer D. Finding a Niche for Memetics in the 21st Century. Journal of Memetics-Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission. 2005;6.

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Gatherer, Derek. / Finding a Niche for Memetics in the 21st Century. In: Journal of Memetics-Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission. 2005 ; Vol. 6.

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title = "Finding a Niche for Memetics in the 21st Century",
abstract = "In summary, memetics can survive as a data-oriented branch of the social simulation field specializing in the evaluation of co-evolutionary or cultural models. Most of that evaluation will be negative, as the nature of the real world can never be confirmed using a computer model. Nevertheless, it may help us to identify cases where our a priori thinking about a cultural phenomenon is inadequate. Karl Popper would have been pleased with this.",
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