The meme machine

In The Meme Machine Susan Blackmore boldly asserts: "Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection." Indeed, Blackmore shows that once our distant ancestors acquired the...

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Tác giả chính: Susan Blackmore
Ngôn ngữ:Undetermined
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Được phát hành: Oxford [England] ; New York Oxford University Press 2000
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