Co-Interactive MeMe/Gene Co-Evolution

"I would make this response, here, about the difference between MeMes and Archetypes --

Archetypes are there, whether we have MeMes or not —”

"Yes, That's True."

“All of that History of Evolution is there; 

so, we have ideas about Sex Differences, or ideas about -

- Dominance is a very good example - 

- that don't require MeMes — 

they can then BECOME MeMes,

and MeMes by Definition, as  Dawkins started it out, is, 

"That which is Imitated.", or, 

"That which is Copied from 

Person to Person."

So the IDEA of Dominance Hierarchies can be a MeMe;

and all of the 

ideas we build on top of that,

so long as 

we are passing them 

from Person to Person." 

"Well, so you can certainly think of Hierarchies of MeMes,

you know, from once they're 

no-more than fads, 

that wash across The Culture, 

to where they become 

more Permanent and Enduring."

" We have The First Replicator 

on The Planet : Genes;

And we know the consequences of that --

Producing all these Organisms.

But, the idea about MeMes, 

is that they are a SECOND Replicator --

So, Genes are copied by chemical processes in bodies,

MeMes are copied by Imitation, 

and other kinds of interactions 

between Human Beings, and

very little in ANY other species at all --

and THAT'S what gives rise to Hunan Culture (it now seems quite pleasing to you — )

(or what passed for it, back in The Dog Days, of Long ago and blesséd Memory —)

So, the whole Theory about MeMes 

is ONE, 

of MANY ways of trying to 

understand 

The Evolution of CULTURE(s)."