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The Meme Machine

Paperback • 2000 • English

The Meme Machine

By Susan Blackmore

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Memes, like genes, are replicators, and this enthralling book is an investigation of whether this link between genes and memes can lead to important discoveries about the nature of the inner self. Confronting the deepest ...Show more

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Violence and abuse in society
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ISBN

9780192862129

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

The Meme Machine

Format

Paperback

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