Социобиология человека. Эволюция без генов. Социальная (культурная) эволюция

 Dawkins became famous in 1976, when his book «The Selfish Gene» was published, in which the term «mem» was introduced into the lexicon, denoting a unit of cultural information (analogous to a gene in genetics) copied and transmitted from one carrier to another and subject to mutation, natural selection and artificial selection. According to

R. Dawkins, «meme» is an idea in consciousness. The new view developed in this book is to consider them not as ideas in the mind, but as interactive brain programs that are localized in places of the brain that are inaccessible to consciousness (according to Freud) – in the unconscious or in the subconscious.

Therefore, I had to change the spelling of the term on MEM.

Developing the ideas of R. Dawkins, I proposed the term MEMnome, which is the whole set of MEMs of a human, reminiscent of the sounding genome.

It is shown that the mentality of a person is a phenotypic manifestation of the MEMnom, and this is the most important factor determining the course of the historical process.

Biological adaptations with the help of genes cause changes in the morphology of individuals, and sociobiological adaptations with the help of brain structures, MEMs refer to changes in mentality. For the species Homo sapiens, they have acquired decisive importance.

At some stage of the evolution of the HS species, when a person himself becomes part of a society, genes seem to delegate their powers to MEMs. How the mutations of MEMs occur, the changing mentality of a person in detail can be understood after the creation of another science, which we conventionally call «Population MEM.

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Unfortunately, at present Genetic determinism, which dominates in biology, tries to imagine everything so that genes control all changes not only in morphology, but also in the social behavior of a person in his mentality. At the same time, biologists are perfectly aware that the acquired signs can not be transmitted by genes to the next generation.

They know, but insist that the genes control everything.

Mentality largely determines the behavior of a person, the way he thinks and priorities. Nevertheless, MEMs as replicators are rejected by many biologists, in view of the fact that they do not fit into the formed paradigm of genetics. But in fact 86 billion brain cells (neurons) of a human being for some reason exist. Do not they code our mentality?

The book consists of 3 sections.