The hotel registration form, along with the other forms, will be included in the fall newsletter. The deadline for submissions for the 1999 conference is October 1, 1998. I also wish to briefly address an issue related to the conference. It turned out to be quite successful. My basic question was whether, in cultural evolution, selection, diffusion, and so on, there is some unit of cultural information analogous to the gene.
Several questions exist with respect to the unit of culture notion.
As it turned out, the group of 15 or so people who attended the session had a lively discussion of these and other issues. Buoyed by that experience, I decided that it would be good to have a meeting session somewhere devoted to the topic and I contacted several anthropologists who I felt both knew something about it and would have something interesting to say. I soon rounded up a half dozen people and one of them talked me into putting together a session proposal for the 1997 meeting of the American Anthropological Association to be held in Washington, DC, last November. I dutifully put the proposal package and sent it off. I hoped that we would get a good day and time for the session.