10.5281/zenodo.5759273
https://zenodo.org/records/5759273
oai:zenodo.org:5759273
León, Malena
Malena
León
0000-0002-9520-2267
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Gimenez, Ignacio
Ignacio
Gimenez
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina
Roffé, Ariel Jonathan
Ariel Jonathan
Roffé
0000-0002-0051-2028
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bernabé, Federico Nahuel
Federico Nahuel
Bernabé
0000-0002-4273-7786
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina
Ginnobili, Santiago
Santiago
Ginnobili
0000-0001-5375-965X
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Is there a scientific research program in memetics? - The case of bird songs
Zenodo
2021
Meme
Cultural Evolution
Research program
Natural Selection
Cultural Traditions in Birds
2021-12-30
spa
2254-0601
10.5281/zenodo.5759272
https://zenodo.org/communities/disputatio
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Memetics is an approach to cultural evolution that has been the focus of much discussion and has attracted criticism of various kinds in recent decades. The purpose of our paper is to investigate whether, beyond the existing criticisms and defenses, there exists at present any research program that can be adequately characterized as memetic. We will focus, specifically, on the field of the study of the cultural evolution of bird songs, since some authors have used the word "meme" to refer to the cultural items under study. However, not all use the word, since, probably due to its controversial nature, it has fallen into disuse. This implies that to fulfill the objective of our work we cannot appeal to bibliometric analyses. For this reason, we will elucidate the different senses in which memetics can be characterized. Our objective is to defend that in the area of bird songs we can find research that responds to the memetic perspective in all the above-mentioned senses.