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Meme Machine

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ISBN-10: 019286212X

ISBN-13: 9780192862129

Edition: 2000

Authors: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins

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'Any theory deserves to be given its best shot, and that is what Susan Blackmore has given the theory of the meme I am delighted to recommend her book.' Richard Dawkins 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 questions about our inner…    
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List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/16/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.82" wide x 5.04" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Richard Dawkins writes about such topics as DNA and genetic engineering, virtual reality, astronomy, and evolution. Dawkins was educated at Oxford University and taught zoology at the University of California and Oxford University, holding the position of the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science. He is a member of the International Academy of Humanism. Dawkins' books include The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, and Climbing Mount Improbable. His book, entitled The God Delusion, shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children. Dawkins supports his points with historical and contemporary evidence. His…    

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