{"id":42137,"date":"2011-06-26T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T05:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12532"},"modified":"2011-06-26T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T05:28:07","slug":"the-different-dynamics-of-memes-vs-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/26\/the-different-dynamics-of-memes-vs-genes\/","title":{"rendered":"The different dynamics of memes vs. genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/06\/cartoon1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12533\" title=\"cartoon1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/06\/cartoon1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>In my long post below, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/06\/celts-to-anglo-saxons-in-light-of-updated-assumptions\/\">Celts to Anglo-Saxons, in light of updated assumptions<\/a>, I had a &#8220;cartoon&#8221; demographic model in mind which I attempted to sketch out in words. But sometimes prose isn&#8217;t the best in terms of precision, and almost always lacks in economy.<\/p>\n<p>In particular I wanted to emphasize how genes and memes may transmit differently, and, the importance of the steps of going between A to Z in determining the shape of things in the end state. To illustrate more clearly what I have in mind I thought it might be useful to put up a post with my cartoon model in charts and figures.<\/p>\n<p>First, you start out with a large &#8220;source&#8221; population and a smaller &#8220;target&#8221; population. Genetically only the migration from the source to the target really has an effect, because the source is so huge that migration from the target is irrelevant. So we&#8217;ll be focusing on the impact upon the target of migration both genetically and culturally.<\/p>\n<p>To simplify the model we&#8217;ll imagine a character, whether genetic or memetic, where the source and target are absolutely different at t = 0, or generation 1. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my long post below, Celts to Anglo-Saxons, in light of updated assumptions, I had a &#8220;cartoon&#8221; demographic model in mind which I attempted to sketch out in words. But sometimes prose isn&#8217;t the best in terms of precision, and almost &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,1490,8,55,4,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-saxons","category-celts","category-culture","category-demographics","category-genetics","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}