Selfish Meme A Critical Reassessment

Name: Selfish Meme A Critical Reassessment
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ISBN: 9780521606271

ISBN-10: 0521606276

ISBN-13: 9780521606271

Edition: 2004

Authors: Kate Distin

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Culture is a unique and fascinating aspect of the human species. How did it emerge and how does it develop? Richard Dawkins has suggested that culture evolves and that memes are the cultural replicators, subject to variation and selection in the same way as genes function in the biological world. In this sense human culture is the product of a mindless evolutionary algorithm. Does this imply that we are mere meme machines and that the conscious self is an illusion? Kate Distin extends and strengthens Dawkins's theory and presents a fully developed and workable concept of cultural DNA. She argues that culture's development can be seen both as the result of memetic evolution and as the…

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/20/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English




Introduction



The meme hypothesis



Cultural DNA



The replication of complex culture



Variation



Selection



The story so far



The human mind: meme-complex with a virus?



The meme's eye view



Early cultural evolution



Memetic DNA



Memes and the mind



Science, religion and society: what can memes tell us?



Conclusions