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9780192862129

The Meme Machine

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  • ISBN13:

    9780192862129

  • ISBN10:

    019286212X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-05-16
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

A meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. In this book, Blackmore discusses the theory of "memetic selection"--survival of the fittest among competitive ideas down through the generations--to strive for a new understanding of the evolution of our minds and cultures.

Author Biography


Susan Blackmore is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of the West of England. The author of Dying to Live: Science and the Near Death Experience, she resides in Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Richard Dawkins
Preface
Strange creatures
Universal Darwinism
The evolution of culture
Taking the meme's eye view
Three problems with memes
The big brain
The origins of language
Meme-gene co-evolution
The limits of sociobiology
An orgasm saved my life
Sex in the modern world
A memetic theory of altruism
The altruism trick
Memes of the New Age
Religions as memeplexes
Into the Internet
The ultimate memeplex
Out of the meme race
References
Index
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