As a comment on the text about memes, and genes I would like to state the following:
I think the statement that memes change faster then genes is somewhat misleading. It may suggest that this is necessarily the case at all times. Memes are often seen as only fast changing social behavioral patterns in line with the statement above.
In my opinion the interesting feature about memes is that they can include fast changing patterns, but also very slowly, or allmost never changing patterns, that are generally not even recognized as patterns.
These patterns are connected with beliefs and thoughts, and are aswell interconnected, where stable patterns limit the occurance of more fluid, or faster changing ones.
In my view it must be possible to represent clusters of patterns as they occur in the form of an N-K landscape, as used by S Kauffman, in the origens of order (1993).
Coming back to the first line, I think it is too simple to say that memes change in shorter periods of times than genes.
