Volume 1

Volume 1 opens from a distinctly period setting, but its editorial premise still has force: ideas evolve, and cultural evolution can be studied with the same seriousness as biological evolution. The issue brings together work on memetic science, cultural transmission, biological evolution, consciousness, information theory, and the origins of belief systems. Read today, it remains a compact record of an early effort to join biology, cognition, and the study of ideas under one roof.

Contents

• Covers and Front Matter
• Memetic Science I - General Introduction
  Elan Moritz
• Cultural Evolution: A Biologist's View
  John Tyler Bonner
• Searching for a General Theory of Biological Evolution
  Daniel R. Brooks and Deborah A. McLennan
• The Metabolic Roots of Consciousness
  R. A. Wiley
• Sketch of a Logical Demonstration that the Global Information Capacity of a Macroscopic System Must Behave Entropically When Viewed Internally
  Stanley N. Salthe
• Memes and Creationism
  H. Keith Henson and Arel Lucas