The evolution of semantic systems

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1013, Issue , 2004, Pages 150-177

  Bainbridge, William Sims ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive science; Cultural genetics; Culture; Evolution; Information science; Meme; Nanoscale; Nanotechnology; Science fiction; Semantics; Space program

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; BIOENGINEERING; BIOINFORMATICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL FACTOR; HYPOTHESIS; IDEOLOGY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LITERATURE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS; TAXONOMY;

EID: 2942611425     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1305.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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