Uploaded September 2011 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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This is a video which responds to one of Steven Pinker's criticisms of memetics - the one where he questions whether it can make sense to talk of Romeo and Juliet evolving into West Side Story.

Transcript: on-memetics.blogspot.com/2011/09/tim-tyler-can-memetics-explain.html

Pinker's entire critique: on-memetics.blogspot.com/2011/07/stephen-pinkers-objections-to-memetics.html

Please buy my book on Memetics: memetics.timtyler.org

"Memetics: Memes and the Science of Cultural Evolution."

Amazon.com link: amazon.com/dp/1461035260