Embodiment versus memetics

Mind and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-94

  Bryson, Joanna J ^a,b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Embodiment; Language evolution; Memetics; Semantic space

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949094488     PISSN: 15937879     EISSN: 18601839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11299-007-0044-4     Document Type: Article

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