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After Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, Susan Blackmore drive us deeply into the theory of the meme, social and cultural "replicators", trying to explain the human unique ability to imitate. Altruism, ideas, human behaviours, sex, poetry, music... seems to be simply the result of such as memetic selection... > Even our inner conscious self and our sense of free will are illlusion created by the memes for the sake of their own replication.

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7 editions · 5 languages
  • Paperback · English · 1999
    Oxford University Press · 264 pages · 9780192862129
  • Other · English · 1999
    Oxford University Press · 264 pages · 9780965881784
  • Other · English · 1999
    Oxford University Press · 264 pages · 9780198503651
  • Paperback · Turkish · 2011
    Mem Makinesi
    Alfa Yayincilik · 346 pages · 9786051063737
  • Paperback · German · 2005
    Die Macht der Meme
    Spektrum Akademischer Verlag · 416 pages · 9783827416018
  • Paperback · Spanish · 2000
    La Maquina De Los Memes
    Ediciones Paidos Iberica · 360 pages · 9788449309670
Social psychologyMemeticsBehavior evolutionImitationSociobiologyHuman behaviorEvolución de la conductaEvolución social