01636nam a2200253Ia 4500 TVU_12330 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 019286212X 9780192862129 eng 304.5 S964 Blackmore, Susan The Susan Blackmore Oxford [England],New York Oxford University Press 2000 xx, 264 p. 24 cm 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 crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began, a survival of the fittest amongst competing ideas and behaviors. Ideas and behaviors that proved most adaptive--making tools, for example, or using language--survived and flourished, replicating themselves in as many minds as possible. These memes then passed themselves on from generation to generation by helping to ensure that the genes of those who acquired them also survived and reproduced. Applying this theory to many aspects of human life, Blackmore offers brilliant explanations for why we live in cities, why we talk so much, why we can't stop thinking, why we behave altruistically, how we choose our mates, and much more Almitation; Behavior evolution; Sociobiology Susan Blackmore Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh